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XIX.1 January + February 2012
Page: 34
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Revolutionizing human-computer interfaces


Authors:
Neel Patel, Darin Hughes

Human-computer interfaces (HCIs) have lead to enormous advances in both computing and everyday life. Fields from finance to medicine are adopting new forms of interaction between humans and computers to help enable faster and more accurate decisions. Scientists are benefiting from the ability to interact with their data, with the computer as an intermediary, in the form of graphs and charts; such interactions help researchers to better understand the data itself. Though the uses of computers are innumerable, data manipulation and display are prominent among them. Whether a doctor is examining a patient's heart-rate variance or an economist is…




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