New book on "Computers in the Human Interaction Loop"

In spring 2009 Springer published our book on "Computers in the Human Interaction Loop" co-edited by Alex Waibel and Rainer Stiefelhagen.

Alex Waibel and Rainer Stiefelhagen (Eds.).

Computers in the Human Interaction Loop.

Human-Computer Interaction Series, Springer Verlag, London, 2009.

(See book description at Springer, Springer online access), (see Amazon.com)

The book explores a new look at human interfaces, where computers become participants among humans interacting with humans, as opposed to a rigid human-machine interaction dialog. To do so, computers must become perceptually aware and learn to provide services proactively and unobtrusively based on an implicit understanding of human needs.

The book integrates a wide range of research topics that represent key elements of this vision including audio-visual perceptual components for such environments; the design, implementation and analysis of novel proactive perceptive services supporting humans; the development of software architectures, ontologies and tools necessary for building such environments and services, as well as approaches for the evaluation of such technologies and services.

Please see the book description at Springer or buy it at Amazon.