interaction

Definition

Exchange between parties — a user and a system, an agent and its environment, or people and objects in a scene. The sense shifts with what is interacting: human-object interaction is a recognition task about relations in an image, while human-AI interaction concerns interface and collaboration design. The common thread is bidirectionality: unlike a single input-output pass, interaction implies that each side's next move depends on the other's response.

Explainers using this term

• Paper Walkthrough: VoiceMem — A Left Brain and a Right Brain for Voice Agents, at Zero Added LatencyVoiceMem: Streaming Dual-Brain Memory for Real-Time Interaction