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Starfire video prototype

Developing a new interface for computer systems is a large task. Apple Computer had tried film as a prototype to some extent in their Knowledge Navigator film in 1987, and in the film Starfire a team at the SunSoft division of Sun Microsystems and Bruce Tognazzini developed ideas of how an interface for the next century might be, using film as a prototyping mechanism.

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The project drew together the talents of more than 100 engineers, designers, futurists, and filmakers in an effort to both predict and guide the future of computing.

The project produced three things:-

The film, showing a day in the life of a knowledge worker in the year 2004.

Tog on Software Design, which not only covers the film in intimate detail, but lays out several more equally thought-provoking scenarios, even if they were not enshrined in celluloid.

Starfire, the Paper, published in the CHI Proceedings, outlining the rules followed in attempting to build a scientifically legitimate video prototype, as opposed to simply confabulating a fanciful, but non-implementable, vision.

== The film ==

The film was released as the Starfire video, in NTSC format, and later made available as part of a collection of human-computer interaction videos.

== More information ==

[http://www.idemployee.id.tue.nl/g.w.m.rauterberg/movies/ A collection of human-computer interaction videos.]

[http://www.asktog.com/starfire/starfireHome.html AskTog] - Bruce Tognazzini s homepage about Starfire]