Communicating With Computers (CWC)
Abstract
The Communicating With Computers (CWC) program is advancing the state-of-the-art in human-computer interaction by enabling computers to comprehend language, gesture, facial expression and other communicative modalities in context. Human language is inherently ambiguous and so humans depend strongly on perception of the physical world and context to make language comprehensible. CWC aims to provide computers with analogous capabilities to sense the physical world, encode the physical world in a perceptual structure, and link language to this perceptual encoding. To accomplish this, CWC will apply and extend research in language, vision, gesture recognition and interpretation, dialog management, cognitive linguistics, and the psychology of visual encoding, which are essential for human communication in the physical world. CWC will also work to extend the communication techniques developed for physical contexts to nonphysical contexts such as virtual constructs in the cyber domain. CWC advances will impact military application areas such as robotics and command and control.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 224b64e758ae0aebaa11c8f55f9fc8e0