Human-Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications

✍ Scribed by N. A. Abramova, S. V. Kovriga (auth.), Zdzisław S. Hippe, Juliusz L. Kulikowski (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 561
• Series: Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing 60
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

For the last decades, as the computer technology has been developing, the importance of human-computer systems interaction problems was growing. This is not only because the computer systems performance characteristics have been im-proved but also due to the growing number of computer users and of their expectations about general computer systems capabilities as universal tools for human work and life facilitation. The early technological problems of man-computer information exchange – which led to a progress in computer programming languages and input/output devices construction – have been step by step dominated by the more general ones of human interaction with-and-through computer systems, shortly denoted as H-CSI problems. The interest of scientists and of any sort specialists to the H-CSI problems is very high as it follows from an increasing number of scientific conferences and publications devoted to these topics. The present book contains selected papers concerning various aspects of H-CSI. They have been grouped into five Parts:

I. General H-CSI problems (7 papers),
II. Disabled persons helping and medical H-CSI applications (9 papers),
III. Psychological and linguistic H-CSI aspects (9 papers),
IV. Robots and training systems (8 papers),
V. Various H-CSI applications (11 papers).

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
From Research on the Decision-Making in Ill-Structured Situation Control and the Problem of Risks....Pages 3-15
Emulating the Perceptual System of the Brain for the Purpose of Sensor Fusion....Pages 17-27
Knowledge Acquisition in Conceptual Ontological Artificial Intelligence System....Pages 29-37
Problems of Knowledge Representation in Computer-Assisted Decision Making Systems....Pages 39-54
A Dialogue-Based Interaction System for Human-Computer Interfaces....Pages 55-65
Consistency-Based vs. Similarity-Based Prediction Using Extensions of Information Systems – An Experimental Study....Pages 67-81
Image Annotation Based on Semantic Rules....Pages 83-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
A Prototype Mobility and Navigation Tele-Assistance System for Visually Disabled....Pages 97-108
Eye-Mouse for Disabled....Pages 109-122
Eye-Blink Controlled Human-Computer Interface for the Disabled....Pages 123-133
HMM-Based System for Recognizing Gestures in Image Sequences and Its Application in Continuous Gesture Recognition....Pages 135-146
Machine Learning of Melanocytic Skin Lesion Images....Pages 147-159
A Preliminary Attempt to Validation of Glasgow Outcome Scale for Describing Severe Brain Damages....Pages 161-170
Segmentation of Anatomical Structure by Using a Local Classifier Derived from Neighborhood Information....Pages 171-180
An Application of Detection Function for the Eye Blinking Detection....Pages 181-191
Self-directed Training in an Evidence-Based Medicine Experiment....Pages 193-204
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Emotion Recognition from Facial Expression Using Neural Networks....Pages 207-219
Emotion Eliciting and Decision Making by Psychodynamic Appraisal Mechanism....Pages 221-232
Positing a Growth-Centric Approach in Empathic Ambient Human-System Interaction....Pages 233-244
Toward Daydreaming Machines....Pages 245-256
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
Eliminate People’s Expressive Preference in the Mood of Fuzzy Linguistics....Pages 257-268
VoiceXML Platform for Minority Languages....Pages 269-280
Polish Speech Processing Expert System Incorporated into the EDA Tool....Pages 281-293
A Web-Oriented Java3D Talking Head....Pages 295-311
A VR-Based Visualization Framework for Effective Information Perception and Cognition....Pages 313-332
Front Matter....Pages 333-333
From Research on the Virtual Reality Installation....Pages 335-345
High-Level Hierarchical Semantic Processing Framework for Smart Sensor Networks....Pages 347-358
A Human-System Interaction Framework and Algorithm for UbiComp-Based Smart Home....Pages 359-370
Biologically Reasoned Point-of-Interest Image Compression for Mobile Robots....Pages 371-382
Surgical Training System with a Novel Approach to Human-Computer Interaction....Pages 383-393
Kinematics Analysis and Design of 3 DOF Medical Parallel Robots....Pages 395-406
Graphical Human-Machine Interface for QB Systems....Pages 407-417
Visualization of Two Parameters in a Three-Dimensional Environment....Pages 419-428
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
An Evaluation Tool for End-User Computing Competency in an Organizational Computing Environment....Pages 431-442
Enterprsise Ontology for Knowledge-Based System....Pages 443-458
Constructing Ensemble-Based Classifiers Based on Feature Transformation: Application in Hand Recognition....Pages 459-469
A New and Improved Skin Detection Method Using Mixed Color Space....Pages 471-480
A Formal Model for Supporting the Adaptive Access to Virtual Museums....Pages 481-492
3D Molecular Interactive Modeling....Pages 493-504
Shape Recognition of Film Sequence with Application of Sobel Filter and Backpropagation Neural Network....Pages 505-516
Front Matter....Pages 429-429
Dynamic Changes of Population Size in Trai ning of Artificial Neural Networks....Pages 517-527
New Approach to Diagnostics of DC Machines by Sound Recognition Using Linear Predictive Coding....Pages 529-540
Diagnosis Based on Fuzzy IF-THEN Rules and Genetic Algorithms....Pages 541-556
Necessary Optimality Conditions for Fractional Bio-economic Systems: The Problem of Optimal Harvest Rate....Pages 557-567
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)