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posted by Editor on Wednesday September 26, @04:29PM
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The concept of post-WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) user interfaces was originally introduced in this article (PDF) by Andries Van Dam that appeared in the Communications of the ACM a few years ago. The article's main premise is that user interface design has not kept up with the steady, predictable improvements in hardware price/performance. It then makes an objective assessment of the pros and cons of WIMP interfaces, followed by a brief survey of possible directions for interface evolution, including speech, gesture, and 3DUI approaches.
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Once you have the technology VanDam describes for "augmented reality" interfaces, things like voice recognition, gesture recognition, object recognition with some (limited at first) knowledge bases, it seems like you have most of the software you need to make humaniform robots.
This might be an interesting intermediate step between current limited AI capabilities and full human-like AI, which I've long perceived as fairly far off, Kurzweil notwithstanding.
--Greg
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