Building an adaptable user experience

Human-computer interaction is never easy. Computers don't understand speech, sentiments, or body language. However, we are all used to communicating with our smart devices using not-so-smart buttons, drop downs, pickers, switches, checkboxes, sliders, and hundreds of other controls. They comply with a new kind of language that is commonly referred to as UI. Slowly but unavoidably, machine learning has made its way into all areas where computers interact directly with humans: voice input, handwriting input, lip reading, gesture recognition, body pose estimation, face emotion recognition, sentiment analysis, and so on. This may not be immediately obvious, but machine learning is the future of both UI and UX. Today, machine learning is already changing the way users interact with their devices. Machine learning-based solutions are likely to become widely-adopted in UIs because of their convenience. Furthermore, ranking, contextual suggestions, automatic...