Human-Centered Computing

Computers and other machines should be designed to effectively serve people’s needs and requirements. All too often they’re not. Commonly cited examples of this are the difficulty people have in setting up their VCR to record a TV show; and the difficulties people have in setting up a home computer facility, or hooking up to the Internet. Artificial intelligence software can be used to deliver more human-centered computing, improving system usability, extending the powerfulness of human reasoning and enabling greater collaboration amongst humans and machines, and promoting human learning. A goal of human-centered computing is for cooperating humans and machines to compensate for each other’s respective weaknesses (e.g., machines to compensate for limited human short-term memory and the slowness with which humans can search through many alternative possible solutions to a problems; and for humans to compensate machines for their more limited pattern-recognition capability, language processing, and creativity) in support of human goals.


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Human-Centered Computing, Computers and other machines should be designed to effectively serve people’s needs and requirements. All too often they’re not. Commonly cited examples of this are the difficulty people have in setting up their VCR to record a TV show; and the difficulties people have in setting up a home computer facility, or hooking up to the Internet. Artificial intelligence software can be used to deliver more human-centered computing, improving system usability, extending the powerfulness of human reasoning and enabling greater collaboration amongst humans and machines, and promoting human learning. A goal of human-centered computing is for cooperating humans and machines to compensate for each other’s respective weaknesses (e.g., machines to compensate for limited human short-term memory and the slowness with which humans can search through many alternative possible solutions to a problems; and for humans to compensate machines for their more limited pattern-recognition capability, language processing, and creativity) in support of human goals.,