Enhancing human-machine interface

An EU-funded project successfully developed wearable computer demonstrators that do not only offer new ways of interaction, but are more natural and user friendly. The technology has high potential to revolutionise markets such as smart and interactive textiles, medical rehabilitation and video games.

Communication between man and machine – known as human-machine interface (HMI) – could become more intuitive or natural by integrating motional and emotional information. Those parameters are difficult to express with standard HMI devices. A great part of the information is conveyed through non-verbal communication. Adding these cues to HMI requires a move from classical computer peripherals to interfaces that mimic natural human interaction.

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