bRight: Taking Human-Machine Interaction to the Next Level

submitted by Samuel Bendett

gizmag.com - by Paul Ridden - July 16, 2013

As I sit here tapping away at my keyboard, I'm flanked by a computer screen showing news feeds from the world of technology, another frantically tumbling away with Twitter updates, and another still that's telling me that yet another email has landed in my inbox. While I sometimes feel like I'm drowning in data, my woes are as nothing to those experienced by air traffic controllers, network administrators, operators in emergency response control rooms, and even busy stock traders. bRight from SRI International – the Californian research institute which originally developed the Siri virtual assistant – has been designed to make life a little easier for folks who need to make snap decisions in time critical situations, but are faced with an overwhelming amount of information flowing in all at once.

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