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Places such as homes, offices, workplaces, classrooms, conference rooms, and streets can be considered fields where humans act. The purpose of human sensing is to observe and analyze humans and the social interactions that occur among them in these fields in order to discover human activities and social systems, design and establish new social systems and environments, and develop new information media or artifacts. Technology for sensing humans has been developed in various fields such as medicine/physiology, engineering, psychology, and sociology. Some examples include media processing and artificial intelligence used for observing and automatically recognizing human intentions, human engineering for designing artifacts, and user interfaces (Knapp and Hall 1972; Wickens et al. 2004). By incorporating technologies used in these fields, we will consider how to observe and analyze complicated and multitiered phenomena in target fields as pluralistically as possible. This chapter is organized as follows: Sect. 3.1 describes the type of information to be collected, and Sect. 3.2 explains the details of each sensing technology. Section 3.3 contains examples of acquiring multifaceted data and browsing human activities. These examples demonstrate the latest information media technology. In Sect. 3.4, scenario examples are discussed. Note that sensing technologies for nature and biologging, described in Chaps. 1 and 2, overlap with human sensing technologies. Hence, referring to those chapters is recommended.
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Nakamura, Y. (2012). Human Sensing. In: Ishida, T. (eds) Field Informatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29006-0_3
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