Man-Machine Interaction has constantly been evolving ever since machines were invented.It was computers that marked the beginning of an era where machines began to get smart and intelligent. Smarter machines facilitated better ways of communication and this ease of communication attracted even laymen towards them. As these machines evolved they began augmenting human intelligence to provide better and faster solutions to problems.
"The profound technologies are those that disappear"
Machines took up different shapes and forms of real world objects by encapsulating computing prowess within them. These objects have grown in dexterity to learn and understand human behavior. We are in an era where humans have become oblivious to the existence of these computing devices. Interaction among these ubiquitous computing devices provided a platform for setting up the pervasive environment.
The potential of these environments to understand human behavior has been aided by sensors through the advancement of several technologies facilitated by gesture recognition, haptic perceptions, acoustic and phonetic analysis etc. Soft computing techniques using an agglomeration of these inputs are able to react to human behavior by the use of actuators through technologies like iO2, audio synthesis, haptic simulators etc.
The pinnacle of Humane Computing will be a time where machines would be able to understand and react to human thoughts by analyzing neuron impulses in the human brain. At that juncture it will only be a matter of time before we humans loose our hold as the most dominant species on the planet.
Divya M
Shivram R V
Sudharsan C P
V M.Sc. SWE
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