{"id":5851,"date":"2019-01-03T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T10:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=5851"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:16:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T10:16:49","slug":"atkinson-world-service-click","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atkinson-world-service-click\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The computer mouse at 50’ – Professor Paul Atkinson on the BBC World Service’s Click"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor of Design and Design History\u00a0Paul Atkinson\u00a0<\/a> was a guest on BBC World Service’s Click<\/a> programme on Saturday 29 December talking about the computer mouse on its 50th anniversary and how the design was developed and refined.<\/p>\n

Fifty years ago Doug Engelbart<\/a>, engineer and inventor from the Augmentation Research Center Lab, gave what has become known as the ‘mother of all demos’ \u2013 a demonstration of many computing concepts – such as the mouse, text links, and videoconferencing, that today we take for granted. Yet despite this landmark showcase it took another twenty years for the mouse to come into our homes and offices. In the programme, Click looks back at the development of the mouse and how interfaces may change in the future.<\/p>\n

Paul Atkinson<\/a>\u00a0is Professor of Design and Design History and researcher at the\u00a0Art and Design Research Centre<\/a>\u00a0(ADRC) at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor of Design and Design History\u00a0Paul Atkinson\u00a0 was a guest on BBC World Service’s Click programme on Saturday 29 December talking about the computer mouse on its 50th anniversary and how the design was developed and refined. Fifty years ago Doug Engelbart, engineer and inventor from the Augmentation Research Center Lab, gave what has become known as the ‘mother of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":5852,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[5,933,165,129,931,932,164],"class_list":["post-5851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-design-history-research","tag-design-research","tag-history-of-computing","tag-mouse","tag-paul-atkinson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2019\/01\/2019-01-ATKINSON-World-Service-Click-Mice.jpg?fit=891%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1wn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10553,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/atkinson-amplified-world-service-the-forum\/","url_meta":{"origin":5851,"position":0},"title":"Delving into the roots of the electric guitar – Professor Paul Atkinson interviewed on the BBC World Service’s ‘The Forum’ about how the electric guitar has conquered popular music","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"10\/09\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Paul Atkinson, industrial designer and design historian at Sheffield Hallam and author of Amplified: A Design History of the Electric Guitar, has appeared on BBC World Service's The Forum discussing how the electric guitar has conquered popular music. 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