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This looks great, but I'm a bit worried that this will only bring more people RSI or similar problems. I think that the future of input devices are our brains
by CWIZO 14y ago
This looks great, but I'm a bit worried that this will only bring more people RSI or similar problems.
I think that the future of input devices are our brains and a device that can read what's going on in them and translate that to the computer. We really need to move away from devices that use hands because they simply aren't made for such tasks. The only way I see humans still using hands for computer interaction in the future is if we get prosthetic robot hands like in the Deus Ex game for example.
- Tim_Rudolph619 14y agoAgree with you! But I must say it is still functional.
- aggie 14y agoI think that the future of input devices are our brains and a device that can read what's going on in them A major obstacle to developing a useful brain-computer interface using EEG is signal strength. The event-related potentials measured at the scalp are microvolts and do not play well with other electronics nearby. Direct measurement of the motor cortex solves this problem, but most people aren't eager for brain surgery. The other option is to move downstream to the muscle site where a clean signal is quite accessible. I agree, however, that this is a less than ideal solution.
- CWIZO 14y agoI think this is just something that future advancements in technology will make possible and practical. So I'm not to worried about this problems that you listed :)
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- StavrosK 14y ago> The only way I see humans still using hands for computer interaction in the future is if we get prosthetic robot hands like in the Deus Ex game for example. If we could access the brain outputs that control the hands, why would we make robot hands and special input devices to be controlled by those hands to control the computers, rather than interface to the computers directly?
- CWIZO 14y agoWell both use cases could be made in parallel. You could have prosthetic hands to replace your lost ones (or to "upgrade" your existing ones) and have a direct link to the computer.
- StavrosK 14y agoDefinitely, but they wouldn't use those hands for interaction, as the GP stated.
- CWIZO 14y agoCould be. But it also could be that we would be able to tap into nerves and make artificial hands sooner than a usable interface between the brains and computer (there is a whole set of other problems to solve here). And that would mean that the interface for the computer would stay the same (keyboard, mouse, touch screen, ...) but our hands would be mechanical (and you couldn't get Carpal Tunnel Syndrom since, well, you wouldn't have a carpal tunnel :))
- StavrosK 14y agoWhat are the other problems? Making a prosthetic arm is a superset of getting inputs from nerves, since you need to do that to make the actual arm. Besides, Microsoft already did that, as this very post indicates.
- CWIZO 14y agoWell for starters you would have to read the signals from the brain, otherwise you are limited to the nerves in your hands. Maybe I wasn't clear enough about what I mean. I was thinking along the lines of thought control, not that you would control a virtual hand, if you will, on the computer. And if you wanted that you would, like I said, have to capture brain activity and develop software that would be able to make sense of your thoughts and translate those thoughts into actions on the computer ... this, to me, is a whole different game.