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A visual interface that gives autonomous machines "body language"

Researchers from Switzerland and South Africa have designed a visual interface that would give autonomous machines the equivalent of body language. The interface uses a clustering algorithm and a fractal generator.

"Our idea of communication has a strong focus on learning and interpretation — trying to create relationships between the internal machine variables and the macroscopic behavior," said Jan-Jan van der Vyver, a researcher at the University of Zürich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Snapshots of a machine’s sensory input, computational processing and output are clustered and the clusters are displayed as fractal images. The fractal generator produces a fractal pattern in the center of the display and patterns move outward in concentric rings, giving observers a sense of change over time.

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  1. detecting spyware | September 6, 2005 at 6:50 pm | Permalink

    Very good article. Technology really is going to unparallel bounds today. :)

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