Computers, tapes, mobile phones, news screens, televisions, radio, newspapers, books and other publications, microscopes, codes and devices for detection, checking and / or certification of persons.
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. 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 that not only presents data in the desired way, but also constantly changes the presentation, in order to avoid overloading the brain.
This would allow students to study more efficiently or visit a museum to enjoy their visit. Museums already in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and the US have shown interest in new technology. Possible future applications are of course too many.
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, breathing rate, heart rate - are tracked and used to adjust how the data is presented. They have been configured accordingly two smaller, portable, case study systems.
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, by presenting the data in the most appropriate way, "Mr. George Papadopoulos, from the CERT team participating in the CEEDs, notes in" K ".
"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, composed of the researchers George Papadopoulos (postdoctoral researcher), Konstantinos K. Apostolakis (research assistant) and Petros Dara (researcher of the Second Degree) developed a method based on the repeated assessment of the objects (or their components ) that are of interest to the user.
"An innovation of our approach is the introduction of a set of spatiotemporal features, which deal with the problem from a mathematical perspective, in contrast to the methods in the literature that are based on the exclusive use of features coming 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. This is how the possibility is ensured transporther
Source: kathimerini.gr
