Her software, which helps children understand facial expressions in real time by carrying a small computing device with them, eases the transition from computer interaction to human interaction.
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Just as human-computer interaction was once a burgeoning new field and now is a given in system design, human-future interaction is poised to become more essential to our strategic planning and innovation processes.
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My own work in Human-Computer Interaction takes place alongside hundreds of innovative young women under 30.
Realizing he had bigger ambitions, he enrolled in a university to study human-computer interaction with the intention of becoming a researcher.
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Released less than two years ago, it may not have quite redefined video games, but it has arguably been one of the biggest boons to human-computer interaction research in decades.
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Yet the idea is largely based on anecdotes, and researchers such as Karl MacDorman, associate professor of human-computer interaction at Indiana University, are working on experiments to hone in on possible explanations.
"My guess, given the enthusiasm for Twitter so far, is that people are going to do really cool things, " Scott Klemmer, co-director of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at Stanford University, told Wired, a CNN content partner.
The interactive feature has provided more than just novel entertainment, though: the MIT Media Lab scientists behind the demonstration have used it to collect an enormous trove of facial expression data that will contribute to research on human-computer interaction.
To be sure, Minority Report wasn't the first movie to portray gesture interfaces as the future of human-computer interaction, but most prior examples were deeply entrenched in the traditional mindset of virtual reality and cyberspace common in the 1990s -- think Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic.
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And just about every technical countermeasure that brilliant engineers devised to protect vital computer systems and valuable information can be accidentally or intentionally circumvented by human interaction.
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