Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on research needs for delivering effective human–computer systems. This problem is discussed in the light of the work supported by the Joint Councils' Initiative (JCI), the SOFT Science and Technology Programme and the Real World Computing (RWC) program. The perspective on human–computer interface (HCI) from robotics is presented in the chapter. A robot is defined as a computer system with eyes, ears, tactile/force sensors, hands, and legs for interacting with an environment. Thus, the term HCI can be replaced by human–robot interaction (HRI). It is discussed that approach to robotics will expose novel aspects of HRI. In addition, the chapter focuses on the design of friendly interfaces for pictorial database systems. A model of visual image processing and algorithms is developed for visual interaction, such as sketch, similarity, and sense retrieval. These algorithms have been used in an image database of graphical symbols, which adapt to each user's subjective similarity measures. An electronic art gallery has also been developed, containing full-color paintings that enable retrieval via text-based queries (e.g., romantic, soft, or warm).
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