Human-Computer Interaction & Virtual Environments

10 Breakthrough Technologies 2021

Technology Review: This list marks 20 years since we began compiling an annual selection of the year’s most important technologies. Some, such as mRNA vaccines, are already changing our lives, while others are still a few years off. Below, you’ll find a brief description along with a link to a…

An AI is training counselors to deal with teens in crisis

Technology Review: Counselors volunteering at the Trevor Project need to be prepared for their first conversation with an LGBTQ teen who may be thinking about suicide. So first, they practice. One of the ways they do it is by talking to…

The ‘MetaHuman Creator’ Wants to Produce Digital Humans Easily

VICE: Epic Games is unleashing a new technology that will allow anyone to create photo-realistic humans on demand. It’s called MetaHuman Creator and it’s the product of years of…

Brain Implants and Wearables Let Paralyzed People Move Again

IEEE Spectrum: In 2015, a group of neuroscientists and engineers assembled to watch a man play the video game Guitar Hero. He held the simplified guitar interface gingerly, using the fingers of his right hand to press down on the fret…