Information Cognition (IC): Enabling the Human Cog in the Information Retrieval Machine

本研究计划将探讨使用视觉表示法对大型、复杂、多媒体数据集进行安全导航和搜索的可行性。它借鉴了先前的研究，表明人类视觉系统具有识别和分类3D环境中对象的强大能力。为此，该项目将创建一个实验平台，将人类的认知能力与设计信息管理、计算机图形学和数据挖掘方面的最新进展结合起来。由此产生的系统将支持系统地研究先进的视觉界面如何影响用户在数据子集内查找单个项目和识别模式或奇点的能力。该项目实验方法的准确性是通过与一个由领先国防承包商(如劳斯莱斯、波音等)组成的财团支持的国际研究中心的密切合作来确保的。这一伙伴关系将确保该项目侧重于国防工业面临的挑战，并能够利用现实的基准环境评估其产出。

SUMMARYThis research programme will investigate the feasibility of using visual representations for the secure navigation and search of large, complex, multimedia data sets. It draws upon prior research that shows the human visual system has a powerful ability to recognise and classify objects in 3D environments. To do this the project will create an experimental platform that combines human cognitive abilities with recent advances in design information management, computer graphics and data mining. The resulting system will support the systematic study of how advanced visual interfaces impact on a user's ability to both find individual items and identify patterns, or oddities, within subsets of the data. The veracity of the project's experimental methodology is ensured through close collaboration with an international research centre supported by a consortium of leading defence contractors (ie Rolls Royce, Boeing etc). This partnership will ensure the project is focused on the challenges faced by the defence industry and can assess its outputs using a realistic bench mark environment.