ACM TechNews

Computing Squared

AlphaGalileo (08/07/08)

For computing to become ubiquitous and useful, the emerging technology will have to adapt to the way humans live, communicate, and work, according to new research in the International Journal of Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems. The next-generation computer interfaces must be able to understand and emulate people, and recognize behavioral cues such as body language, facial expressions, and tone of voice. Maja Pantic of Imperial College London, Anton Nijholt of the University of Twente in the Netherlands, Alex Pentland of MIT's Media Lab, and Thomas Huanag of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign assess the progress that has been made in the areas of human-centered computing and Human-Centered Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction (HCI-squared). A paradigm shift in computing is necessary to move toward HCI-squared, considering current machine analysis of human behavior is not context-sensitive and is unable to handle long timescales. "The focus of future research efforts in the field should be primarily on tackling the problem," the researchers conclude. "This problem should be treated as one complex problem rather than a number of detached problems in human sensing, context sensing and human behavior understanding."

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