Transcript Human Machine Interfaces

Human Machine Interfaces
By Elizabeth Chmiel, Senai Iman,
and Ece Yaman
Human Machine Interfaces
• the way machines
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communicate with human
beings will greatly change
our understanding of
objects of spaces
the advent of this natural
dialogue with machines is
rooted in theorists like
Castells and McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
• Foresaw the consequences of rapid technological
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development
predicted that technology would eradicate societies
obsession with files and folders
Our ability to access information quicker is redefining
the traditional landscape of our societies
between the organic and machine, technology will
shake our understanding of ethics, morality,
humanism, and science
Technologies are pulling us apart…
• we are becoming more
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dependent on machines,
and less in touch with
nature and ourselves
technologies have
become such a huge part
of our daily lives that it is
difficult for us to
disconnect ourselves from
them
Manuel Castells
• Castells stressed that institutions and
societies were created through collective
action and different forms of social dynamics
• the advent of technologies like the internet
was propagated by the state, social
movements, and business interests
• conflicting agendas of all parties has led to
technology being manifested in several
directions and each has morphed the way the
‘sovereign individual’ interacts with objects
and spaces
• technology is empowering the individual
• Common thread amongst each of these
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conflicting agendas is an increasing move
towards the “real”
Our five senses are connecting becoming closer
and closer to technology, machines are moving
towards realism replacing our senses
New technologies have eliminated barriers of
space and time
The Internet and Our Minds
• internet has replaced
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books, encyclopedias,
whole libraries
because of all the
information that is
accessible via the
web, we do not read
as many books as we
used to
The Camera and Our Memory
• Digital camera has
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replaced our memory
it saves our visual
memories for us so
that we no longer
need to remember
things, our visual
memories do not
work as hard
TV and Our Imagination
• TV shows and movies
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have replaced our
imagination
people used to read
books and picture the
events occurring in
our heads
Now this is done for
us
Video Games and Our Creativity
• video games have
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replaced our creativity
children used to play
with dolls and cars,
and make up their
own fairytale lands,
but now their minds
are conforming to
what is presented by
video games
Media-Obsessed
• all these technologies facilitate
the speed of our lives, but they
impose on our attention
• we have become a mediacrazed culture
• We are becoming increasingly
more impatient with the need
to be entertained
• Mp3 players have enabled us
to carry music with us
anywhere we go so we never
get bored
• we are constantly looking for more to be entertained
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which is creating more and more technological diversions
current developments towards a scent synthesizer that
will allow people to smell through the internet or while
playing a video game
At Universal Studios, California, there is already a 4-D
Movie Motion Simulator
4-D transcends virtual reality by adding the effects of
real elements, replacing what we would imagine things
to smell like
• Castells also warned of the struggle that
exists between the network and the quest
for personal identity
• our societies are increasingly structured
around the bipolar opposition of the Net
and the Self
• the more connected we become, the
greater risk of alienation
Internet Cafes and Our Socializing
• Internet cafés were
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established so that the
internet is literally is
available for anyone at
any time
Cafés used to be a place
for people to gather
In internet cafés people
all sit separately at their
own computer, there is
hardly any face-to-face
contact
Our Communication
• Cell phones, email and
messenger services have
replaced meeting in person
• We use these technologies so
much that we no longer put
thought into what we do or
say which causes words to lose
their meaning
• People used to put effort into
letters they wrote, now
communication is so simple
that we say n’importe quoi
online
The Other Side
• Some argue that people put just as much effort
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into writing emails as they would writing a letter
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400w4XnjElI
This move towards realism and break in
communication can only affect us if we allow
machines to ruin us
The Other Side
• machines have greatly
influenced our lives in a
positive way
• users that are disadvantaged
in the senses (disabilities) will
be able to use machines as an
alternative
• Medical Intelligence Inc. has
designed a permanently-fixed
wrist bracelet that incorporates
three technologies to help
passively but effectively
monitor those with Alzheimer’s
and other dementias
• designers at Intuitive Surgical Inc.,
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have developed and robot that in
effect is an improvement on an
existing surgical method known as
"keyhole" surgery which surgeons
use elongated chopstick-like tools
teamed with a tiny camera to
work inside the body
the da Vinci, takes the surgical
instruments away from the
surgeon and enables him or her
with 3-D vision
a surgeon can use technology to
perform an operation from a
remote location (such as their
home) on a patient in a surgery
room
• Video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sS4hRxxKQlk
What does our future hold?
• What is the next step in the harmonization
of machine and the organic?
• What will be real?