From creating interfaces that humans conform to, to interfaces that conform to humans
The X2 Project conducted a workshop on the future of science at National University of Singapore on July 25, 2008.
One of the pleasures of working with a group like this is that one sees insights emerge that transcend disciplinary boundaries. This group had one of those insights: that across OLEDs and organic polymers, natural language processing, etc., there's a trend away from creating machines that humans have to conform to to use, to creating machines with the capacity for understanding humans. Some of these technologies, like natural language processing, understand formal human communication. Others monitor and make sense of informal or biological communication: they decode cell signals, monitor brainwaves to tell what kinds of things make you happy, or use at involuntary cues-- e.g. eye tracking-- to deduce human behavior.
The X2 Project conducted a workshop on the future of science at National University of Singapore on July 25, 2008.
- brain-machine interface
- human computer interface
- human-computer interaction
- National University of Singapore
- natural language processing
- OLEDs
- Singapore
National University of Singapore expert workshop, July 25, 2008.
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Conforming interfaces
Yes, science fiction has had speech recognition and other AI techniques for many years. But in the real world it is really difficult. We may have a chance to see it in action now with all the computer power we have at our fingertips; all we have to do is figure out a way for someone to make a lot of money using it. I personally have encouraged speech-recognition hardware/software to be used where applicable but so far, in 20 years, no one has seen fit to do it. How far have we come in that 20 years? And still not main-stream? How much longer will we wait?
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