Communicating With Computers (CWC)*
Abstract
*Formerly Human and Computer Symbiosis (HCS) The Communicating With Computers (CWC) program will advance 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 communication is the process by which an idea in one person's mind becomes an idea in another's. 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; link language to this perceptual encoding; and learn the skills of communication. 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: these 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; program evaluations will include tests of this sort of transfer. CWC advances will impact military application areas such as robotics and command and control.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- 34e4629663ccc1b95194e337ded22fa4