Hippe Z.S., Kulikowski J.L., Mroczek T. (eds.) Human-Computer Systems Interaction. Backgrounds and Applications 2

Springer, 2012. — 1075 p.The history of human-system interactions is as long as this of human civilization. Human beings by natural evolution have been adapted to live in groups and to commonly fight for food and shelter against other groups or against the natural forces. The effects of this fight was depended on two basic factors: on ability to communicate among collaborating groups or persons and on capability to understand and to preview the principles and behavior of the opponent groups or forces. This, in fact, is also the main contemporary human-system interaction (H-SI) problem. A system is in this case – in a narrow sense – considered as a system created on the basis of electronic, optoelectronic and/or computer technology, in order to aid humans in reaching some of their vital goals. So-defined system is not only a passive tool in human hands; it is rather an active partner equipped with a sort of artificial intelligence, having access to large information resources, being able to adapt its behavior to the human requirements and to collaborate with the human users in order to reach their goals. The area of such systems’ applications practically covers most of human activity domains and is still expanding. Respectively, the scientific and practical H-SI problems need a large variety of sophisticated solution methods. This is why the H-SI problems in the last decades became an important and extensively growing area of investigations.
In this book some examples of the H-SI problems and solution methods are presented. They can be roughly divided into the following groups: a) Human decisions supporting systems, b) Distributed knowledge bases and WEB systems, c) Disabled persons aiding systems, d) Environment monitoring and robotic systems, e) Diagnostic systems, f) Educational systems, and g) General H-SI problems. As usually, some papers to more than one class can be assigned and that is why the classification suits only to a rough characterization of the book contents.Decision Supporting Systems
From Research on Modeling of Uncertain Data: The Case of Small and Medium Enterprises
Implementation of Human-System Interface for Manufacturing Organizations
Precision of an Expert Fuzzy Model
Database Access and Management with the Use of the MOODLE Platform
Human Activity Supporting by Deontological Knowledgebases
Multi-aspect Character of the Man-Computer Relationship in a Diagnostic-Advisory System
Services Merging, Splitting and Execution in Systems Based on Service Oriented Architecture
Importance Measures in Reliability Analysis of Healthcare System
Towards a Formal Model of Visual Design Aided by Computer
Agricultural Products’ Storage Control System
A Dynamic Programming Approach for Ambient Intelligence Platforms in Running Sports Based on Markov Decision Processes
Prometheus Framework for Fuzzy Information Retrieval in Semantic Spaces
Evaluating Overheads Introduced by OPC UA Specifications
Distributed Knowledgebase’s and Web Systems
A Document-Centric Processing Paradigm for Collaborative Computing
Computing Utilization via Computer Networks
The Method of Communication Quality Improvement in Distributed Systems with Real-Time Services
An Autocatalytic Emergence Swarm Algorithm in the Decision-Making Task of Managing the Process of Creation of Intellectual Capital
Implementation of the Progressive Meshes for Distributed Virtual Museum
The Impact of the Control Plane Architecture on the QoS in the GMPLS Network
On Social Semantic Relations for Recommending Tags and Resources Using Folksonomies
The Simulation of Malicious Traffic Using Self-similar Traffic Model
A Cooperative Approach to Web Crawler URL Ordering
Synergic Intranet: An Example of Synergic IT as the Goal of E-Engineering
Impaired Persons Aiding Systems
Electronic Systems Aiding Spatial Orientation and Mobility of the Visually Impaired
Towards Vision-Based Understanding of Unknown Environments
Recognition of Hand Posture for HCI Systems
Some Eye Tracking Solutions for Severe Motor Disabilities
A Visual Hand Motion Detection Algorithm for Wheelchair Motion
Computerized Color Processing for Dichromats
Sitting Motion Assistance for a Rehabilitation Robotic Walker
Pedestrian Navigation System for Indoor and Outdoor Environments
Model Based Processing of Swabbing Movements on Touch Screens to Improve Accuracy and Efficacy for Information Input of Individuals Suffering from Kinetic Tremor
Compound Personal and Residential Infrastructure for Ubiquitous Health Supervision
Using Computer Graphics, Vision and Gesture Recognition Tools for Building Interactive Systems Supporting Therapy of Children
EEG Biofeedback: Viability and Future Directions
EEG Signal Processing for BCI Applications
Environment Monitoring and Robotic Systems
SSVEP-Based Brain-Computer Interface: On the Effect of Stimulus Parameters on VEPs Spectral Characteristics
Design and Development of a Guideline for Ergonomic Haptic Interaction
Partner Robots – From Development to Business Implementation
Goal Understanding and Self-generating Will for Autonomous Humanoid Robots
A Talking Robot and Its Singing Performance by the Mimicry of Human Vocalization
An Orthopedic Surgical Robotic System-OrthoRoby
Methods for Reducing Operational Forces in Force-Sensorless Bilateral Control with Thrust Wires for Two-Degree-of-Freedom Remote Robots
Diagnostic Systems
Applications of Neural Networks in Semantic Analysis of Skin Cancer Images
Further Research on Automatic Estimation of Asymmetry of Melanocytic Skin Lesions
Multispectral Imaging for Supporting Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy Diagnoses
A Machine Learning Approach to Mining Brain Stroke Data
Using Eye-Tracking to Study Reading Patterns and Processes in Autism with Hyperlexia Profile
Ontology Design for Medical Diagnostic Knowledge
Rule-Based Analysis of MMPI Data Using the Copernicus System
Application of 2D Anisotropic Wavelet Edge Extractors for Image Interpolation
Experimental Results of Model-Based Fuzzy Control Solutions for a Laboratory Antilock Braking System
Educational Systems
Remote Teaching and New Testing Method Applied in Higher Education
Points of View on Magnetic Levitation System Laboratory-Based Control Education
2D and 3D Visualizations of Creative Destruction for Entrepreneurship Education
Employing a Biofeedback Method Based on Hemispheric Synchronization in Effective Learning
General Problems
Comparison of Fuzzy and Neural Systems for Implementation of Nonlinear Control Surfaces
Hardware Implementation of Fuzzy Default Logic
Dwulit’s Hull as Means of Optimization of kNN Algorithm
OWiki: Enabling an Ontology-Led Creation of Semantic Data
Fuzzy Genetic Object Identification: Multiple Inputs/Multiple Outputs Case
Server-Side Query Language for Protein Structure Similarity Searching
A New Kinds of Rules for Approximate Reasoning Modeling
Technical Evaluation of Boolean Recommenders
Interval Uncertainty in CPL Models for Computer Aided Prognosis
Neural Network Training with Second Order Algorithms
Complex Neural Models of Dynamic Complex Systems: Study of the Global Quality Criterion and Results