Richard A. Bolt : Put-That-There Demo

Put-That-There at CHI '84

In 1980, Richard A. Bolt from MIT wrote Put-that-there : voice and gesture at the graphics interface. It was a pioneering multimodal application that combined speech and gesture recognition.
This demo shows users commanding simple shapes about a large-screen graphics display surface. Because voice can be augmented with simultaneous pointing, the free usage of pronouns becomes possible, with a corresponding gain in naturalness and economy of expression. Conversely, gesture aided by voice gains precision in its power to reference.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• multimodal
• application
• voice
• speech
• input
• gesture
• space
• sensing
• spatial
• data
• management
• man-machine
• interfaces
• gui
• MIT
• 1980
• 80s

[navigatormonkey]

It looks so retro, but ask yourself, "can my computer do this now?"

[nilreb]

great demo, i was stunned

[VirtualVisitor999]

This work system was designed and built by Christopher Schmandt, then a student researcher at MIT in the late 1970s. Supporting work by other students. Richard A. Bolt had very very little to do with this, other than writing a report and claiming much of the work for himself.

[nukz0r]

@navigatormonkey yes.

[samsoulee]

OMFG the wii is THAT old ? :D