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 ==Summary==
-By 2020 computer interfaces will have become embedded into the environment, following research and development in pervasive, ubiquitous and cyber-physical systems.  To date these interfaces have largely been considered in terms of analog interactions; direct manipulation through tangible, touchscreen and gestural interfaces.  Higher-order interfaces, including programming languages, have been left out of the picture.
+By 2020 computer interfaces will have become embedded into the environment, following continued research and development in pervasive, ubiquitous and cyber-physical systems.  To date these interfaces have largely been considered in terms of analog interactions; direct manipulation through tangible, touchscreen and gestural interfaces.  Higher-order interfaces, including programming languages, have been left out of the picture.
-However datasets continue to grow across fields of research and practice, already surpassing the practical limits of end-user programming tools such as Excel in some fields.  Biology is a notable example, spawning a subfield of bioinformatics to cope with the influx of data.
+However datasets continue to grow across fields of research and practice, already surpassing the practical limits of end-user programming tools such as Excel in some fields.  Biology is a notable example, which has spawned the new field of bioinformatics to cope with the influx of data.
-As datasets continue to grow in size and complexity across fields, there will be opportunities for developing hybrid systems which take advantage of new modes of embodied HCI, but applied to higher order interactions.  Formal linguistic abstractions which allow users to understand and process large datasets can be integrated with visuospatial manipulations, allowing knowledge and processes to be grounded in bodily interactions.
+As datasets continue to grow in size and complexity across fields, there will be opportunities for developing hybrid systems which take advantage of new modes of embodied HCI, but applied to higher order interactions.  Formal linguistic abstractions which allow users to understand and process large datasets can be integrated with visuospatial manipulations, allowing knowledge and processes to be grounded in bodily interactions.  This enrichment of formal programming languages is analoguous to the integration between prosodic and linguistic aspects of speech.
 The fundamental scientific problem to solve in order to implement the technology and get the benefits by then is in how to map the abstractions of formal language to embodied interactions.  Steps towards this goal is already well developed in object oriented and visual programming, but needs to be extended and applied using new interfaces embedded into the environment.