Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery: Foundations, Theories, and Systems

✍ Scribed by Judith E. Devaney, S. G. Satterfield, J. G. Hagedorn, J. T. Kelso, A. P. Peskin (auth.), Yang Cai (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 322
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3345 Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Many difficult scientific discovery tasks can only be solved in interactive ways, by combining intelligent computing techniques with intuitive and adaptive user interfaces. It is inevitable to use human intelligence in scientific discovery systems: human eyes can capture complex patterns and relationships, along with detecting the exceptional cases in a data set; the human brain can easily manipulate perceptions to make decisions.

Ambient intelligence is about this kind of ubiquitous and autonomous human interaction with information. Scientific discovery is a process of creative perception and communication, dealing with questions like: how do we significantly reduce information while maintaining meaning, or how do we extract patterns from massive data and growing data resources.

Originating from the SIGCHI Workshop on Ambient Intelligence for Scientific Discovery, this state-of-the-art survey is organized in three parts: new paradigms in scientific discovery, ambient cognition, and ambient intelligence systems. Many chapters share common features such as interaction, vision, language, and biomedicine.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Science at the Speed of Thought....Pages 1-24
Computational Biology and Language....Pages 25-47
Interactive Comprehensible Data Mining....Pages 48-65
Scientific Discovery Within Data Streams....Pages 66-80
Shape as Memory Storage....Pages 81-103
Spatial Cues in 3D Visualization....Pages 104-128
Textual Genre Analysis and Identification....Pages 129-151
Cognitive Artifacts in Complex Work....Pages 152-183
Multi-modal Interaction in Biomedicine....Pages 184-201
Continuous Body Monitoring....Pages 202-223
Ambient Diagnostics....Pages 224-247
Wireless Local Area Network Positioning....Pages 248-262
Behavior-Based Indoor Navigation....Pages 263-285
Ambient Intelligence Through Agile Agents....Pages 286-310
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Database Management; Computer Graphics; Computer Communication Networks