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IBM is extending computing far beyond the keyboard and the monitor, pioneering innovations in interface design, human/computer interaction, speech recognition and multimedia that will not only improve accessibility for people with disabilities, but will change how we relate to computers. Our research in speech and handwriting recognition, image processing and language applications development feeds into our work developing new user experience frameworks, such as web-based collaborative computing. We also develop design strategies for interfaces, ranging from basic principles in interface design to new types of abstractions for interface components.
Featured concepts:
Filling in those little boxes
(March 2008)
MASTORing languages
Speech recognition (November 2006)
You just don't understand!
IBM's Superhuman Speech initiative clears conversational confusion. (September 2002)
TransNote transformation
Researchers cross the great divide between the laboratory and the product line. (May 2001)
Erasing language barriers
New technologies ensure that ideas "lost in translation" are a thing of the past. (November 2000)
Transparent Computing
Tomorrow's user interfaces will respond to your gaze and speech, even your emotional state, letting you concentrate on tasks. It's all part of the concept of "attentive environments." (January 2000)
Green machine
At last, species recognition at the checkout counter (July 1999)
Virtual masterpiece
A 3-D reconstruction is helping to solve the mysteries surrounding Michelangelo's unfinished Pietà. (April 1999)
The Human-Centered Interface
IBM scientists are working on technologies that will let people interact with computers in the ways that come most naturally - such as speech, hand gestures and gaze. (January 1998)
Digital disc diplomacy
Using technical and diplomatic skills, IBM researchers and executives helped to create a single new format for a technology relevant to the entertainment and computer industries. (January 1997)
Talking to machines
Fundamental understanding of speech recognition gleaned by Research over the past quarter-century is leading to products that satisfy customer and market needs. Recently, Research has helped to develop systems that recognize continuous speech in specialized applications, such as creation of radiologists' reports. Research has used further advances in continuous-speech recognition to create telephony applications. The ultimate goal is giving computers the ability to act on complex, naturally spoken queries and commands. (January 1997)
The Body Electric
Technology under development at IBM's Almaden Research Center is designed to pass digital information between two individuals or between an individual and a device via a simple touch. To develop such personal area networks, or PANs, Almaden scientist Thomas G. Zimmerman developed technology that, in effect, transforms the human body into a copper cable. Zimmerman foresees initial use of PANs to identify people to devices that they own, such as automobiles and telephones. (January 1997)
Words out of Characters
Chinese and Japanese continuous-speech recognition products reach the market. (December 1997)
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