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Tuesday, June 14, 2005  



Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
http://www.ihmc.us/

The Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) was established in 1990 as an interdisciplinary research unit of the University of West Florida. Since that time, IHMC has grown into one of the nation's premier research institutes with more than 115 researchers and staff investigating a broad range of topics related to understanding cognition in both humans and machines with a particular emphasis on building computational tools to leverage and amplify human cognitive and perceptual capacities. In a broader context, much of the research effort at IHMC is focused on what has become known as human-centered computing. This emerging concept represents a significant shift in thinking about intelligent machines and, indeed, about information technology in general. Human-centered computing embodies a “systems view,” in which human thought and action and technological systems are seen as inextricably linked and equally important aspects of analysis, design, and evaluation. This framework is focused less on stand-alone exemplars of mechanical cognitive talent, and is concerned more with computational aids designed to amplify human cognitive and perceptual abilities. Essentially these are cognitive prostheses, computational systems that leverage and extend human intellectual capacities, just as eyeglasses are a sort of ocular prosthesis. The prostheses metaphor implies the importance of designing systems that fit the human and machine components together in ways that synergistically exploit their respective strengths and mitigate their respective weaknesses. Current active research areas include: knowledge modeling and sharing, adjustable autonomy, advanced interfaces and displays, communication and collaboration, computer-mediated learning systems, intelligent data understanding, software agents, expertise studies, work practice simulation, knowledge representation, and other related areas. This has been added to Bot Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Artificial Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

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