Atos Consulting Look Out | New Human-Computer Interfaces

Concept

Human Computer Interface (HCI) is an umbrella term encapsulating all aspects of non-invasive interaction between human user and machine. The ultimate goal is to remove the obstacles between the machine and the brain’s desire.
Traditional methods are being challenged, with various alternatives at widely differing levels of maturity.
Not simply defining technological changes, the focus is also on human behavior, the understanding of which will be crucial to the success of any new means of interaction.

Trajectory

Keyboards, monitors, and mice represent barriers between the brain and the machine, and will be the first to change and then ultimately disappear. To transport a sentence from a cognitive spark to a word processor and then to check the integrity of that sentence requires much work in between the sender and receiver. Removing any part of this process will lead to near-instantaneous and error-reduced action. This notion can be applied to any other task.
Speech recognition is a current example of an interface that reduces input time, albeit with its own adoption problems. Artificial Intelligence and emotion detection may follow this lead.
Low-cost accelerometers (such as in the iPhone), accurate satellite positioning, image recognition, and low-cost network processing and storage are driving consumer HCI design. The biggest recent innovation is the multi-touch sensor which will no doubt make big changes in how we behave and interact with the machine.
In the longer term, interfaces directly to the brain (if accepted by users) will allow direct control via thought and will unleash an entirely new world of technology to completely change the human way of life.

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