A version of this article appears in print on Dec. 8, 2024, Section SR, Page 10 of the New York edition with the headline: Human Interaction Is Now a Luxury Good.

Professor Shogo Okada leads the Social Signal and Multimodal Interaction Laboratory at Japan Advanced Institute of Science ...

I want happiness and love to be real. This is, I suppose, a philosophical objection to our sudden move into virtual space with one another: Virtual interaction is a simulation of real human life.

The modern smartphone took human interaction to the next level by turning the entire display screen into a multitouch user interface. The keyboards built within phones rapidly became obsolete.

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