This ICT Results article reports SIMILAR, a European task force focused on human-computer interaction (HCI), plans to make human-computer interaction ‘similar’ to the way humans do it. From the article: "Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark Twain’s time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force hopes to change that by making human-computer interaction, well, ‘similar’ to the way humans do it.
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