CHIstory wins Golden Mouse Award at CHI!
Last summer, a few other Microsoft Interns and I kicked around the idea of making a Mystery Science Theater 3000 parody video for the new CHI video showcase event. Then we watched a lot — a LOT — of old CHI videos. I’m pretty sure that most people never expected that these would be seen again. We hope never to see many of them again either.
That idea evolved into CHIstory, a fake history-channel-from-the-future: after the Great Usability Cataclysm wipes out all knowledge of human-computer interaction, we are forced to reconstruct history from scant video evidence. We get it very, very wrong.
An esteemed panel of judges, many of whom we made fun of, made the mistake of rewarding our insolence with the Golden Mouse award for Most Entertaining Video. Next year, maybe we’ll get a paper in!
You guys are hilarious. Nicely done.