The Perception - Artificial Human Sensors: Science and Applications - page 54

Figure 3.1. The perception visualised in a picture showing the beauty of nature. Im-
age source http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bierstadt Lake, Rocky Mountain
National Park, USA.jpg.
as defined earlier. However, it is a complex process, not yet fully understood.
The word perception comes from the Latin perception, percepio , and is related to the
understanding of the processes concerning receiving, collecting, and taking active
part, in understanding the sensation concept. The sensation is apprehended with
the mind or senses and how the human, interprets with these sensations. Percep-
tual sensations are experiences that consequently receive, collect and further take
an active part in processing the sensation by the brain.
In the technology approach of a corresponding artificial sensory system, we
define a human-based sensing capability as a device in close interaction with the
individual. The main concept is to improve or complement the human sensory
perception with additional sensor information. This process will then, most likely,
provide a richer information in real-time and a more adequate perception that
make more accurate decisions and conclusions. This will then provide an increased
sensational performance. A critical process is, however, how the information is
perceived to the human in order to be considered as a communication related to
the interactive perception process. Then, the information is considered to be of a
process in nature, e.g., an open and effective communication between the human
perceptual sensing and the artificial complementary sensor system.
The technology development in this field of human related perceptual devices
has for the last decades often been focussed on mimicking a single perceptual sys-
tem, e.g., the vision system. The goal has often been to perceive similar solutions