Human-Computer Interfaces

As computing power becomes pervasive in a wide variety of environments, traditional keyboard, mouse, and monitor interfaces will give way to novel interfaces, including natural-language recognition of speech and handwriting, visual recognition of gestures, and even recognition of emotions. Thanks to such interfaces, pervasive applications will help people remain focused on a task rather than distracting their focus from the task to a computer. Interfaces in support of pervasive computing are an important part of IBM's research on human-computer interaction and natural-language processing.