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User Interfaces

User interfaces is the conduit a human uses to communicate with an electronics device.
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User interfaces is the conduit a human uses to communicate with an electronics device. User interfaces include keyboards, mouse and graphic user interfaces on a screen, touch screens, voice recognition, sound recognition, visual clues taken from gestures, eye movements, even facial movements/emotions. Brain wave reading and neurological signals have started to be used in specialized medical devices, such as prosthetic limbs. Almost all electronics devices have a user interface in some form.

In the early days of electronics, the user would like be just typing in codes on a keyboard to communicate with the machine. Before the advent of the smartphone and the tablet, the mouse and keyboard were the main ways to interact with a computer. User interfaces are now going through a renaissance of new options, some of which have been around for a while but can now work react faster in real-time to commands thanks to better communication pipelines and artificial intelligence, machine learning and neural networks.

This section describes common categories of user interfaces and the components (hardware and software) needed to make them work.