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 the human works brain; Πώς θα μπορούσε να βελτιωθεί η αφομοίωση και η κατανόηση του τεράστιου όγκου πληροφοριών; Βήματα στην απάντηση αυτών των περίπλοκων ερωτημάτων επιχειρεί ένα ενδιαφέρον ευρωπαϊκό ερευνητικό πρόγραμμα, με τη συμμετοχή 16 ιδρυμάτων από εννέα 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 prevent brain overload.
So students could study more efficiently or visitors to a museum could enjoy their visit more. Already, museums in Germany, the Netherlands, Britain and the USA have shown interest in the new technology. The possible future applications are certainly 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, 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, 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 commercial costs low applicationof the method. 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
