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.
And thanks to work out of Georgia Tech, tactile sensitivity for robotics, more secure e-signatures and general human-machine interaction is about to get a great 'ol boost.
"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.
Trained at Wayne State and the University of Michigan as a physician and an epidemiologist, Brilliant sees a near-certainty that another AIDS, ebola or bird flu is coming, likely caused by human-animal interaction.
My own work in Human-Computer Interaction takes place alongside hundreds of innovative young women under 30.
One major hurdle is that the language of machine-plus-human interaction has not yet begun to be developed.
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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Human-machine interaction -- the term sounds so clinical, yet it's the most important relationship we need to foster in the 21st century.
"The breakthrough UI defines a new language for human-device interaction that is built ground-up for eye-free operation, " said Boaz Zilberman, chief executive officer of Project RAY.
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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.
Lt Tony Spada of Fish and Wildlife told the Fresno Bee this type of incident was "very rare" because of the safety measures required by the state and because regulations require minimal human-animal interaction.
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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It makes the Facebook platform a place for real-time human interaction.
Those same RFID systems enable retailers to monitor activity and re-order without any human interaction.
The day after I talked with Lanier at his home, we drove together to the Virtual Human Interaction Lab, a new virtual-reality lab on the Stanford campus.
All of this meant the streets quickly became arteries of fast-flowing traffic rather than places of sociable human interaction.
The talk will include "technical content involving head-mounted display hardware and its interaction with the human perceptual system, " with Abrash examining one real world discrepancy to which human perception is sensitive.
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