Human Machine InterfacesHuman Machine Interfaces

By Elizabeth Chmiel, Senai By Elizabeth Chmiel, Senai Iman, and Ece YamanIman, and Ece Yaman

Human Machine InterfacesHuman Machine Interfaces

• the way machines the way machines communicate with communicate with human beings will human beings will greatly change our greatly change our understanding of understanding of objects of spaces objects of spaces

• the advent of this the advent of this natural dialogue with natural dialogue with machines is rooted in machines is rooted in theorists like Castells theorists like Castells and McLuhan and McLuhan

Marshall McLuhanMarshall McLuhan

• Foresaw the consequences of rapid Foresaw the consequences of rapid technological developmenttechnological development

• predicted that technology would eradicate predicted that technology would eradicate societies obsession with files and folders societies obsession with files and folders

• Our ability to access information quicker is Our ability to access information quicker is redefining the traditional landscape of our redefining the traditional landscape of our societiessocieties

• between the organic and machine, technology between the organic and machine, technology will shake our understanding of ethics, will shake our understanding of ethics, morality, humanism, and sciencemorality, humanism, and science

Technologies are pulling us Technologies are pulling us apart…apart…

• we are becoming we are becoming more dependent on more dependent on machines, and less in machines, and less in touch with nature and touch with nature and ourselves ourselves

• technologies have technologies have become such a huge become such a huge part of our daily lives part of our daily lives that it is difficult for us that it is difficult for us to disconnect to disconnect ourselves from them ourselves from them

Manuel CastellsManuel Castells

• Castells stressed that institutions and Castells stressed that institutions and societies were created through collective societies were created through collective action and different forms of social action and different forms of social dynamicsdynamics

• the advent of technologies like the the advent of technologies like the internet was propagated by the state, internet was propagated by the state, social movements, and business interestssocial movements, and business interests

• conflicting agendas of all parties has led conflicting agendas of all parties has led to technology being manifested in several to technology being manifested in several directions and each has morphed the way directions and each has morphed the way the ‘sovereign individual’ interacts with the ‘sovereign individual’ interacts with objects and spacesobjects and spaces

• technology is empowering the individual technology is empowering the individual

• Common thread amongst each of these Common thread amongst each of these conflicting agendas is an increasing move conflicting agendas is an increasing move towards the “real” towards the “real”

• Our five senses are connecting becoming Our five senses are connecting becoming closer and closer to technology, machines closer and closer to technology, machines are moving towards realism replacing our are moving towards realism replacing our sensessenses

• New technologies have eliminated barriers New technologies have eliminated barriers of space and timeof space and time

The Internet and Our MindsThe Internet and Our Minds

• internet has replaced internet has replaced books, books, encyclopedias, whole encyclopedias, whole librarieslibraries

• because of all the because of all the information that is information that is accessible via the accessible via the web, we do not read web, we do not read as many books as we as many books as we used toused to

The Camera and Our MemoryThe Camera and Our Memory

• Digital camera has Digital camera has replaced our replaced our memorymemory

• it saves our visual it saves our visual memories for us so memories for us so that we no longer that we no longer need to remember need to remember things, our visual things, our visual memories do not memories do not work as hardwork as hard

TV and Our ImaginationTV and Our Imagination

• TV shows and TV shows and movies have movies have replaced our replaced our imagination imagination

• people used to read people used to read books and picture books and picture the events occurring the events occurring in our headsin our heads

• Now this is done for Now this is done for usus

Video Games and Our Video Games and Our CreativityCreativity• video games have video games have

replaced our replaced our creativitycreativity

• children used to play children used to play with dolls and cars, with dolls and cars, and make up their and make up their own fairytale lands, own fairytale lands, but now their minds but now their minds are conforming to are conforming to what is presented by what is presented by video gamesvideo games

Media-ObsessedMedia-Obsessed

• all these technologies all these technologies facilitate the speed of our facilitate the speed of our lives, but they impose on lives, but they impose on our attentionour attention

• we have become a media-we have become a media-crazed culturecrazed culture

• We are becoming We are becoming increasingly more increasingly more impatient with the need to impatient with the need to be entertainedbe entertained

• Mp3 players have enabled Mp3 players have enabled us to carry music with us us to carry music with us anywhere we go so we anywhere we go so we never get borednever get bored

• we are constantly looking for more to be we are constantly looking for more to be entertained which is creating more and more entertained which is creating more and more technological diversionstechnological diversions

• current developments towards a scent current developments towards a scent synthesizer that will allow people to smell through synthesizer that will allow people to smell through the internet or while playing a video game the internet or while playing a video game

• At Universal Studios, California, there is already a At Universal Studios, California, there is already a 4-D Movie Motion Simulator4-D Movie Motion Simulator

• 4-D transcends virtual reality by adding the 4-D transcends virtual reality by adding the effects of real elements, replacing what we would effects of real elements, replacing what we would imagine things to smell likeimagine things to smell like

• Castells also warned of the struggle Castells also warned of the struggle that exists between the network and that exists between the network and the quest for personal identitythe quest for personal identity

• our societies are increasingly our societies are increasingly structured around the bipolar structured around the bipolar opposition of the Net and the Selfopposition of the Net and the Self

• the more connected we become, the the more connected we become, the greater risk of alienationgreater risk of alienation

Internet Cafes and Our Internet Cafes and Our SocializingSocializing• Internet cafés were Internet cafés were

established so that the established so that the internet is literally is internet is literally is available for anyone at available for anyone at any timeany time

• Cafés used to be a Cafés used to be a place for people to place for people to gathergather

• In internet cafés In internet cafés people all sit people all sit separately at their own separately at their own computer, there is computer, there is hardly any face-to-face hardly any face-to-face contactcontact

Our CommunicationOur Communication

• Cell phones, email and Cell phones, email and messenger services have messenger services have replaced meeting in personreplaced meeting in person

• We use these technologies We use these technologies so much that we no longer so much that we no longer put thought into what we put thought into what we do or say which causes do or say which causes words to lose their words to lose their meaningmeaning

• People used to put effort People used to put effort into letters they wrote, into letters they wrote, now communication is so now communication is so simple that we say simple that we say n’importe quoin’importe quoi online online

The Other SideThe Other Side

• Some argue that people put just as much Some argue that people put just as much effort into writing emails as they would effort into writing emails as they would writing a letterwriting a letter

• Video: Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400w4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=400w4XnjElIXnjElI

• This move towards realism and break in This move towards realism and break in communication can only affect us if we communication can only affect us if we allow machines to ruin usallow machines to ruin us

The Other SideThe Other Side

• machines have greatly machines have greatly influenced our lives in a influenced our lives in a positive waypositive way

• users that are disadvantaged users that are disadvantaged in the senses (disabilities) will in the senses (disabilities) will be able to use machines as be able to use machines as an alternativean alternative

• Medical Intelligence Inc. has Medical Intelligence Inc. has designed a permanently-fixed designed a permanently-fixed wrist bracelet that wrist bracelet that incorporates three incorporates three technologies to help passively technologies to help passively but effectively monitor those but effectively monitor those with Alzheimer’s and other with Alzheimer’s and other dementiasdementias

• designers at Intuitive Surgical designers at Intuitive Surgical Inc., have developed and robot Inc., have developed and robot that in effect is an that in effect is an improvement on an existing improvement on an existing surgical method known as surgical method known as "keyhole" surgery which "keyhole" surgery which surgeons use elongated surgeons use elongated chopstick-like tools teamed chopstick-like tools teamed with a tiny camera to work with a tiny camera to work inside the bodyinside the body

• the the da Vincida Vinci, takes the , takes the surgical instruments away surgical instruments away from the surgeon and enables from the surgeon and enables him or her with 3-D visionhim or her with 3-D vision

• a surgeon can use technology a surgeon can use technology to perform an operation from a to perform an operation from a remote location (such as their remote location (such as their home) on a patient in a home) on a patient in a surgery roomsurgery room

• Video:Video:

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What does our future hold?What does our future hold?

• What is the next step in the What is the next step in the harmonization of machine and the harmonization of machine and the organic?organic?

• What will be real?What will be real?