Event overview
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Collecting or classifying?
Modern Information Science deals with tasks which include classifying, searching and browsing large numbers of digital objects. The problem today is that our computerized tools are poorly adapted to our needs as they are often too formal: we illustrate this matter with the example of multimedia collections. We then propose a software tool, ReCollection, for dealing with digital collections in a less formal and more sustainable manner. Finally, we explain how our software design is strongly backed up by both artistic and psychological knowledge concerning the ancient human activity of collecting, which we will see can be described as a metaphor for categorization in which two irreducible cognitive modes are at play: aspectual similarity and spatio-temporal proximity.
Francis Rousseaux is Professor at Université de Reims . He also coordinates a European IST project at IRCAM in Paris on behalf of the CNRS. His recent research focuses on the topics of Computing and Decision Making, Music and New Technologies, and Epistemology and Computational Location. His recent publications include: "ReCollection: a Disposal/ Formal Requirement-Based Tool to Support Sustainable Collection Making," "Towards a Collection-Based Knowledge Representation: Application to Geo-political Risks and Crisis Management," and "Taking Lessons from Cognitive Psychologists to Design our Content Browsing Tools." http://recherche.ircam.fr/equipes/sel/rousseaux/english/index-eng.htm
Alain Bonardi is both a researcher and an artist. He has been exploring performance arts, mainly opera, but also theatre in the perspective of computer science, especially artificial intelligence. He also is a composer. Senior lecturer at Paris 8 University, Alain is an engineer diploma from Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télecommunications de Paris. He also has a Ph.D in musicology from Paris 4 University. Alain has been in CNRS delegation at IRCAM since september 2006. His research at IRCAM deals on the one hand with performance classification by artificial intelligence techniques (RealTime Team) and on the other hand the description of signal processing patches (european project Caspar). http://www.alainbonardi.net/
The Whitehead Lectures in Cognition, Computation and Culture
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Dec 2008 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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