Human-machine interaction -- the term sounds so clinical, yet it's the most important relationship we need to foster in the 21st century.

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And thanks to work out of Georgia Tech, tactile sensitivity for robotics, more secure e-signatures and general human-machine interaction is about to get a great 'ol boost.

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One major hurdle is that the language of machine-plus-human interaction has not yet begun to be developed.

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While it's still a concept, the company's so-called BeMoved coffee machine promises to finally bring the disparate worlds of hot beverages and motion control together at last, and do nothing short of raise "human interaction with a coffee machine to a higher level" in the process.

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EBay labs employs economists, machine learning and machine vision experts, data miners, natural language processors and human computer interaction specialists.

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An illustration of a telephone talking to a fax machine left him none the wiser, nor the idea that "storing results of a two-way interaction to a central location" was something that his applications had copied from the American firm.

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