An Artificial Perceptual Model Approach - Artificial Human Sensors: Science and Applications - page 106

The context aware behavioral system has to make use of a new paradigm. The
approach has, to relate to an interfacing sensor system that provides symbiotic
information at a level of human capability and artificial intelligence. Since the in-
dividual usually finds her own information, which is based on the person's gained
perceptual ability, with the highest priority, a merged sensor system has to be on
an equal intelligent level as the human's accessible database, i.e., the brain. To get
a true symbiotic effect between an individual and an adjacent artificial sensor sys-
tem, then it is of most importance to provide the artificial based information at a
level corresponding to human context awareness, as described earlier in Fig. 2.4.
This approach can be seen when strengthening or weakening the basic human
perceptual opinion with additional information, even if we are provided with new
and important data that is out of range for the human organs, i.e., access to new
information, as illustrated in Fig. 5.1.
Sensor systems based on the context aware principle will make the information
available and aware to the human consciousness hopefully at a time when not dis-
tracted by human reasoning. Also, the meaning of interaction gives the possibility
to provide directives and additional information requested. When communicat-
ing context aware sensing activities to the related sensor system then, a skilled
communicating structure is needed, advanced by training and teaching methods,
Calinon (2007). Also in, Huntemann (2008), an illustrative application presents a
high level of human-system interaction when sharing a wheelchair control system.
These qualities may also be used in an unconscious mode of a person when the
context aware based sensor system recognises new and maybe important sensing
information of importance to the situational awareness.
These upcoming situations may for example, be a warning from a complemen-
tary artificial olfaction system, i.e., an electronic nose identifies dangerous com-
pounds in the close proximity of the human olfaction organ that it is not able to
detect, e.g., carbon-monoxide (CO).

Figure 5.1. The context awareness interface.