Comments on: Missing the Woods for the Trees?

By: communicall

communicall — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:05:19 +0000

@Expenses: Thanks for the kudos.

You say you missed the point, but then guess it could have been lost in translation. For all too many people, cut out from communications, computers (microprocessor based smart devices) are a bridge to society. Without a sufficiently open approach to the design of the interfaces through which that communication shall take place, everything remains lost in translation.

Nuisance (back to the drawing board!), but there it is.

By: Expenses

Expenses — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:27:11 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Expenses.

By: Jehan

Jehan — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:49:23 +0000

The article also states:
“These new developments depend on connecting technology to the relevant understanding of people, and it is recognised worldwide that we have a distinctive strength in bringing psychology, linguistics and ethics to bear on the process of developing the new systems.”

Professor Cowie added: “Today when we use technology we adopt a style of communication that suits the machine. Through projects like HUMAINE, SEMAINE, and others linked to them, we will develop technology that will eventually communicate in ways that suit human beings.”

The question Professor Cowie should be asking himself is which human beings? We are all so different from each other, with different strengths and weaknesses, with challenges that some of us cannot even imagine, with geniuses in our midst that we fail to recognise simply because they are different.

And if some of us find computers frustrating because they lack emotion, there are those of us who find emotion frustrating and would prefer communication to be simply that – without being coloured by emotion of any kind. One size does not fit all. We need to look at technology with a much broader vision.