The Best Computer Interfaces: Past, Present, and Future
By Duncan Graham-Rowe, MIT Technology Review
Say goodbye to the mouse and hello to augmented reality, voice recognition, and geospatial tracking.
Computer scientists from around the world will gather in Boston this week at Computer-Human Interaction 2009 to discuss the latest developments in computer interfaces. To coincide with the event, we present a roundup of the coolest computer interfaces past, present, and future.
from the command line of yesterday to the today’s Multitouch screen of the iPhone and Gesture Sensing. The next step in gesture recognition is to enable computers to better recognize hand and body movements visually. Sony’s Eye showed that simple movements can be recognized relatively easily. Tracking more complicated 3-D movements in irregular lighting is more difficult, however. …
Soon we’ll have Augmented Reality. An exciting emerging interface is augmented reality, an approach that fuses virtual information with the real world. The earliest augmented-reality interfaces required complex and bulky motion-sensing and
computer-graphics equipment. More recently, cell phones featuring powerful processing chips and sensors have to bring the technology within the reach of ordinary users. … And Spatial Interfaces. In addition to enabling augmented reality, the GPS receivers now found in many phones can track people
geographically. This is spawning a range of new games and applications that let you use your location as a form of input. …
In the future, … the Brain Computer Interface. Beyond gaming, BCI technology could perhaps be used to help relieve stress and information overload. A BCI project called the Cognitive Cockpit (CogPit) uses EEG information in an attempt to reduce the information overload experienced by jet pilots. … read on.
- April 18th, 2009
























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