ENGINEERING CHALLENGES
FOR A NEW WORLD
USAMA.V
S6 CS
Today, most users communicate with their computers using the familiar keyboard
and mouse, which offers a direct and recognizable collection of input for computers
and present simple data points for the software environment to evaluate. When a
user presses a key or clicks a mouse button, little about those action can be
misconstructed or misinterpreted. However, these actions can limit users to a single
interface.
Developers are now working to make computers as cognitive about their sourroundings
as we are (or atleast as aware as we should be) so they can process much of the
information around them and arrive at a logical conclusion based on a users intent.
Extracting information from the environment will include data points such as the
directionality of the voice( for example, is the user talking to the compute r or to a
friend nearby), the ambient back ground noise, facial recognition for automatic user
selection(and security), 3D maps of the environment for object and gesture recognition, and more.
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