Chapter 29

1980
Richard A. Bolt

• Bolt created a program called "Put-That-There" which inspired combined speech and gesture input, embedded computing and a computer interface that is more like spoken conversation
• provided a way to view data on two-dimensional screens in a three-dimensional simulation
• developed multimodal interfaces to communicate more effectively with the computer in a more humanistic way
• if voice recognition becomes popular it would change the way we use and understand computers
• he created an entire room "the media room" at MIT instead of simply a desktop that one would sit in front of to apply his multimodal experience
• with voice-gesture conjunction the user can use pronouns

This is an incredible system. I would love this kind of voice-gesture recognition for my own computer, or at least a voice and joystick since I don't have an entire wall to display upon. I still don;t know why voice recognition hasn't taken off because it would be a lot more efficient if the technology were advanced enough.