Communicating With Computers (CWC)
Abstract
The Communicating With Computers (CWC) program is advancing human-computer interaction by enabling computers to comprehend language, gesture, facial expression and other communicative modalities in context. Since the very beginning of the field, artificial intelligence has sought to create machines that can use language, interact naturally with humans, and form abstractions and concepts. Human language is inherently ambiguous, so humans depend strongly on perception of the physical world and shared context to communicate efficiently. CWC will 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. CWC will also extend the communication techniques developed for physical contexts to nonphysical contexts and virtual constructs. These CWC advances in foundational areas of artificial intelligence will contribute to future military capabilities in robotics and command and control.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- a8e451aa407e012052253b4ab6e55c18