A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology

This is an excellent historical review of HCI with a good set of references ...

"This paper tries to briefly summarize many of the important research developments in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) technology. By "research," I mean exploratory work at universities and government and corporate research labs (such as Xerox PARC) that is not directly related to products. By "HCI technology," I am referring to the computer side of HCI. A companion article on the history of the "human side," discussing the contributions from psychology, design, human factors and ergonomics would also be appropriate."   continued ...   (Via Brad A. Myers, Carnegie Mellon)