Experiential Dissonance and Interpretation-Aware Systems - Beyond Behavioural Proxies in Human-System Interaction

Interactive systems should not only model user behaviour. They should also model the reliability of their own interpretations ...
IEEE

Enhancing Human–Computer Interaction With Cultural Nuance: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Perspective

Abstract: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has drawn a lot of attention lately as one of the most important and thought-provoking uses of artificial intelligence. The computer must consider a number ...

What Happens When Lemurs Try to “Talk” to Humans Through Technology?

A new study reveals animals might desire to use technology alongside humans. Lemurs showed a preference for interactive ...
eLife

Speech is defined by theta-gamma coupled acoustic rhythms, mapped onto segregated populations in human early auditory cortex

This manuscript presents important findings that challenge traditional models of speech processing by demonstrating that theta-gamma phase-amplitude coupling in the auditory cortex is primarily a ...
The Oberlin Review

Oberlin College Updates Course Catalog for 2026-27 Academic Year

Oberlin will implement changes in its course catalog for the 2026-27 academic year, reflecting the latest in a wave of changes that have rolled out over the past few years. The changes include new ...
BGR

Modern Computer Monitors Ignore This Myth About The Human Eye, And So Should You

You may have heard the claim that the human eye cannot see more than 60 FPS on a monitor. For many people, that is an absolute truth, especially when it comes to gaming. The problem is that this idea, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A Clump of Human Brain Cells on a Computer Chip Learned to Play the Nostalgic Video Game ‘Doom’

No, this isn’t science fiction. Real-life researchers taught a dish of roughly 200,000 living human brain cells to play the classic 1990s computer game “Doom.” Experts at Cortical Labs, an Australian ...
Medscape

Biocomputer From Human Neurons Plays Doom, Raises Ethics

Biological computing, a field in which living human neurons interface with silicon hardware, is progressing from proof of concept to early functional systems, with broad implications for computing ...
IFLScience

The Human Brain Runs On 20 Watts Of Power, About The Same As Your Computer Monitor

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
TechSpot

That Doom-running, human brain cell-powered computer is headed for data centers

What just happened? Following news that its human brain cell-powered computer can run Doom, Australian biotech startup Cortical Labs has announced it is working on two small data centers running on ...
Wired

What It’s Like to Have a Brain Implant for 5 Years

Rodney Gorham recently passed a milestone that few people have reached. He’s had a brain-computer interface implanted for five years. Made by startup Synchron, the experimental implant allows him to ...