Computers, tablets, mobile phones, informational displays, τηλεοράσεις, ραδιόφωνο, εφημερίδες, βιβλία και άλλες εκδόσεις, μικροσυσκευές, κωδικοί και συσκευές ανίχνευσης, ελέγχου ή και πιστοποίησης προσώπων.
At every moment almost the modern man receives a flood of data. Each minute is generated on the planet 1,7 billions of bytes of data, equivalent to 360.000 DVD! More than six megabytes of data per person per day. Increase 40% per year.
What about this mass data bombardment? What do we understand from all this? How does the human brain work? How could the assimilation and understanding of the vast amount of information be improved? An interesting European research project, with the participation of 16 institutions from nine countries, is attempting to answer these complex questions. Among them, the Institute of Information Technology and Communications (IPTIL) of the National Center for Research and Technological Development (EKETA), from Thessaloniki.
The CEEDs program develops an interactive system which not only presents data in the desired way, but also constantly changes the presentation in order to prevent brain overload.
Ετσι θα μπορούσαν οι σπουδαστές να μελετούν αποδοτικότερα ή οι επισκέπτες ενός μουσείου να απολαύσουν περισσότερο την επίσκεψή τους. Ηδη, μουσεία στη Γερμανία, την Ολλανδία, τη Βρετανία και τις ΗΠΑ έχουν εκδηλώσει ενδιαφέρον για τη νέα τεχνολογία. Οι πιθανές μελλοντικές applications βεβαίως είναι πάρα πολλές.
Researchers have formed a "massive data room" (they call it the Induction Engine of Experiences) at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where utilizing a multitude of sensors leads the system to present the information in the appropriate way for the user, depending on his reactions as it examines the data.
Human reactions - gestures, eye movements, respiratory rate, heart rate - are monitored and used to adjust how data is presented. Similarly, two smaller, removable, experience study systems have been developed.
As Jonathan Friedman, a professor of psychology at Goldsmiths, explains University of London and coordinator of CEEDs, "the system understands when participants are tired or overloaded with information. And it adapts accordingly. Either simplifies visual representations to lighten the cognitive load, thus reducing the user's stress and increasing its ability to concentrate. Either guides the user to areas that are less loaded ".
"The goal of the program is to find ways to help understand and process the data by the user. How;
First, equipping the machines with tools that will lead them to what is of interest to the user.
Secondly, with the presentation of the data in the most appropriate way", Mr. George Papadopoulos, from the team of EKETA which participates in CEEDs.
"The program also seeks deeper responses to the way we understand it. What is the physiology of the brain and what are the cognitive activities that take place when the person is in front of a set of data, "says Papadopoulos. Researchers note that we know only about 10% of brain function. "We use the senses to perceive the environment around us. We are trying to see what is happening with subconscious human processes. This gives us an extra force, an ability to understand the meaning of large data sets, "says Freeman.
Recording the look
Can the human look be recorded, analyzed and interpreted? And even to be imprinted on a mathematical algorithm? The research team of the Institute of Information Technology and Communications (ITI) of CERTH gives a positive answer, with regard to the objects it observes. This work is also a contribution to the CEEDs program.
The team, made up of researchers Georgios T. Papadopoulos (postdoctoral researcher), Konstantinos K. Apostolaki (assistant research) and Petro Dara (Tier B researcher) developed a method based on the repeated assessment of objects (or their component parts) that are of interest to the user.
"An innovation of our approach is the introduction of a set of spatio-temporal features, which address the problem from a mathematical perspective, in contrast to methods in the literature that rely on the exclusive use of features derived from the field of psychology," emphasizes Mr. Papadopoulos . A special effort was made to keep the cost of commercial application of the method low. This is why a detector based on the use of a standard commercial high-definition video recording camera is utilized. In this way, the possibility of its transfer is also ensured.
Source: kathimerini.gr
