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Fuzzy logic: Improving interfaces with computing with words

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English - June 07, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes - 8.29 MB
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Technology has become increasingly responsive to human behaviour, with AI tools and machine learning in high demand in modern society. The unpredictability and vagueness of human perception, however, is incredibly hard to capture, and there remains a certain gap in communication between biological and technological systems.

Moreno Colombo and colleagues at the Human-IST Institute in Fribourg, Switzerland, in conjunction with the FMsquare Foundation, have investigated the concept of 'computing with words' by way of handling imprecision in the interaction between humans and machines, a branch of 'fuzzy logic' that has wide and varied applications. 

Read the original research: https://www.springer.com/series/11223