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Human-centered Systems research is concerned with improving the interactions among humans, computing systems, and information resources. Among the research issues addressed are data capture; information store, management and access;knowledge representation, delivery and distribution; intelligent human and computer interfaces;group and organizational interactions; determination of usability and adaptability; and programming paradigms and software environments tailored to problem domains and task specifications. The key challenge in this research is how to harness new information technologies for the benefits of diverse end users.
TECHNOLOGY: (1) Intelligent sensors and input/output devices; (2) Database and knowledge processing technology for data capture and store, knowledge acquisition and representation, information management and retrieval, and knowledge mining; (3) Human-system interfaces, including speech recognition, natural language understanding, and other modalities of human/machine communication; (4) Multi-media information technologies; (5)Machine learning technology, enabling the system to adapt its operations and interactions to human preferences; (6) Collaboration technology; (7) Virtual environments, including both the advanced simulation and modeling technology and the virtual enterprise technology enabling the restructuring of businesses and corporations in the distributed workplace; (8) End-user enhancement technology, including large-scale robotics and very small-scale, embedded systems. FOUNDATIONS: Development of the fundamental theories and models required to understand basic aspects of human/computer interactions. EXPERIMENTAL: Design, construction, and evaluation of systems to support human/computer interactions and to validate models and theories for that interaction. INFRASTRUCTURE: Access to high performance networks and computing systems for teams of university researchers and development of sharable data resources to support experimental work. |
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| These are reported under Human-Machine Interaction and Information Access. | These are reported under Human-Machine Interaction and Information Access. |
Continue the Digital Library projects, a joint research initiative with DARPA and NASA, and support related new work in very large databases and knowledge repositories.
As part of a long-term goal to enable better and more facile access to information and computing resources by ordinary citizens emphasize research including virtual environments, multi-modal human-computer communications and human-language technology. Increase support for research in information-based learning technologies with the potential to transform education at all levels in the 21st century and form a new enabler for the integration of research and education. Initiate the multi-agency program, STIMULATE: Speech, Text, Image, and MUltimedia Advanced Technology Effort, in order to understand multimodal human communication and apply it to computer technology. |
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