02242nam a22003498a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002200224082001900246100003800265245011600303264005200419300005900471336002600530337002600556338003600582500007300618520101000691650002501701650002601726650001501752776003501767856007101802999001901873CR9781139016001UkCbUP20180107143417.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||110215s2012||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139016001 (ebook)  z9780521812665 (hardback)  z9780521012027 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aQP431 b.B59 201200a612.8084/62231 aBossomaier, Terry R. J.,eauthor.10aIntroduction to the Senses :bFrom Biology to Computer Science / [electronic resource]cTerry R. J. Bossomaier. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2012.  a1 online resource (358 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aAn understanding of the senses – vision, hearing, touch, chemical and other non-human senses – is important not only for many fields of biology but also in applied areas such as human computer interaction, robotics and computer games. Using information theory as a unifying framework, this is a wide-ranging survey of sensory systems, covering all known senses. The book draws on three unifying principles to examine senses: the Nyquist sampling theorem; Shannon's information theory; and the creation of different streams of information to subserve different tasks. This framework is used to discuss the fascinating role of sensory adaptation in the context of environment and lifestyle. Providing a fundamental grounding in sensory perception, the book then demonstrates how this knowledge can be applied to the design of human-computer interfaces and virtual environments. It is an ideal resource for both graduate and undergraduate students of biology, engineering (robotics) and computer science. 0aSenses and sensation 0aHuman-machine systems 0aPerception08iPrint version: z978052181266540uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139016001zCambridge Books Online  c236809d236809