Professor Wobbrock says the group's main goal is to make information and computer systems more available and easier to use.

VOA: special.2011.04.18

With all this information, researchers say they can begin to improve computer climate models for predicting the behavior of monsoons.

VOA: special.2010.05.25

But the word hacker is also used to describe a person who tries to steal information from computer systems.

VOA: special.2009.04.19

Some eye care professionals say all that screen time has led to an increase in what they call computer vision syndrome.

VOA: special.2011.08.01

Too much time inside the house using a computer or watching television can cause someone to get cabin fever.

VOA: special.2010.03.28

Visitors to the Computer History Museum can also see parts of one of the earliest large-scale electronic computing devices.

VOA: special.2011.02.15

"The ambiguity that's in those answers is very,very difficult for humans to understand, never mind a computer to understand.

VOA: special.2011.02.28

I did not want them to be difficult or to get in my hair while I was working on the computer.

VOA: special.2009.05.03

The students work with activities on their computer screen and wear a headset and microphone to talk to their tutor.

VOA: special.2011.04.21

Here,he uses a set of buttons attached to a computer to make the silent robot move forward, backward or around in circles.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

Her team used a computer program she developed to identify the risk of broken hipbones in people with the bone disease osteoporosis.

VOA: special.2009.03.10

It enables the user to control the speed and sound levels of orchestral music playing on a computer.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

When he sees a stock rise in price, he uses the computer to buy shares of the stock.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

The computer then takes the signal and gives the driver spoken directions on how to drive the car to avoid an accident.

VOA: special.2009.11.03