TRN January-June 2003 Topic Bundle -- Computer Interfaces: Improving the Computer-Human Working Relationship

Making computers easier to use is a broad, long-term effort that includes improving today’s screen-based interfaces, giving computers senses so they can more naturally interact with humans, and perhaps even wiring computers directly to the brain.

The Computer Interfaces bundle includes a brief tour of recent developments that makes connections among key issues. It also includes the text of 12 in-depth TRN stories about key computer interfaces research projects, and seven related images.

The bundle is organized into three major categories: screens, senses and neurons. Story subjects range from gaze-tracking interfaces to augmented reality to brain implants.