HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE APPARATUS

摘要

A human-machine interface apparatus for providing an output from a computer. The human-machine interface apparatus comprises a three-dimensional form (1) (e.g. a head) shaped to represent a communications agent, the three-dimensional form having a display surface (39), an input interface (11) for accepting image data from a computer (31), a display apparatus (21) for displaying an image with which a user can engage on the display surface corresponding to the input image data, an input apparatus (9) for receiving non-manual inputs from a user who is engaging with an image on the display apparatus, and an output interface (11) for providing to a computer data derived from inputs received by the input apparatus.