Bio-Inspired Human-Computer-Interaction

Bio-inspiration, the use of principles derived from biological system to the construction of artefacts, has been successfully applied in many areas of engineering. Here I argue that Human-Computer-Interaction can greatly benefit from applying principles found in different areas of biology. While HCI system, in general, can learn from biology, the recent trend of moving away from conventional user interfaces to a more naturalistic interaction makes bio-inspiration timely. To support the case, the paper maps four domains of HCI to areas of biological sciences and gives examples of works that applied the underlying principles.

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Ulysses Bernardet

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

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[0001]Aston University

Aston Triangle, B4 7ET, Birmingham, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.86

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Conference name: Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference

Conference acronym: HCI

Conference number: 32

Conference location: Belfast, UK

Conference date: 4 - 6 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Human Computer Interaction Conference

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K. EngD. KleinA. BäblerU. BernardetM. BlanchardM. Costa, … P. F. M. J. Verschure 2003 Design for a brain revisited: the neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space “Ada” Reviews in the Neurosciences 14 1 2 145 180 Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12929924
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M. SaberiU. BernardetS. DiPaola 2014 An Architecture for Personality-based, Nonverbal Behavior in Affective Virtual Humanoid Character Procedia Computer Science 41 204 211 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.11.104

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[1] S. B. i BadiaU. BernardetA. GuanellaP. PykP. F. M. J. Verschure 2007 A Biologically Based Chemo-Sensing UAV for Humanitarian Demining International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems 4 2 21 http://doi.org/10.5772/5697

[2] A. BeetzK. Uvnäs-MobergH. JuliusK. Kotrschal 2012 Psychosocial and psychophysiological effects of human-animal interactions: the possible role of oxytocin Frontiers in Psychology 3 234 http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00234

[3] U. BernardetJ. S. AleixandriP. F. M. J. Verschure 2017 An Interactive Space as a Creature: Mechanisms of Agency Attribution and Autotelic Experience International Journal of Virtual and Augmented Reality 1 1 1 15 http://doi.org/10.4018/ijvar.2017010101

[4] U. BernardetM. CholletS. DiPaolaS. Scherer 2016 An Architecture for Biologically Grounded Real-Time Reflexive Behavior Intelligent Virtual Agents 295 305 Springer International Publishing http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_26

[5] R. A. Brooks 1991 Intelligence without representation Artificial Intelligence 47 1 3 139 159 http://doi.org/10.1016/0004-3702(91)90053-M

[6] J. CabessaH. T. Siegelmann 2014 The Super-Turing Computational Power of Plastic Recurrent Neural Networks International Journal of Neural Systems 24 08 1450029 http://doi.org/10.1142/S0129065714500294

[7] K. EngD. KleinA. BäblerU. BernardetM. BlanchardM. Costa, … P. F. M. J. Verschure 2003 Design for a brain revisited: the neuromorphic design and functionality of the interactive space “Ada” Reviews in the Neurosciences 14 1 2 145 180 Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12929924

[8] J. FellN. Axmacher 2011 The role of phase synchronization in memory processes Nature Reviews Neuroscience 12 2 105 118 http://doi.org/10.1038/nrn2979

[9] Y. LeCunY. BengioG. Hinton 2015 Deep learning Nature 521 7553 436 444 http://doi.org/10.1038/nature14539

[10] R. W. Picard 1999 Affective Computing for HCI HCI International 829 833 L. Erlbaum Associates Inc Retrieved from http://affect.media.mit.edu/pdfs/99.picard-hci.pdf

[11] M. SaberiU. BernardetS. Dipaola 2015 Model of Personality-Based, Nonverbal Behavior in Affective Virtual Humanoid Character ICMI ’15: 2015 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction 371 372 Seattle, Washington, USA ACM http://doi.org/10.1145/2818346.2823296

[12] M. SaberiU. BernardetS. DiPaola 2014 An Architecture for Personality-based, Nonverbal Behavior in Affective Virtual Humanoid Character Procedia Computer Science 41 204 211 http://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2014.11.104

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