Information processing : of humans, by humans and for humans
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- The core mission of information science is to design information processing tools that aid human communication and scientific discovery. Naturally, the development of such tools is shaped by concurrent understandings of human biology and behavior. In our 21st century world, myriad human-focused investigations have opened up rich potential markets for tool design. My research explores such intersections between human biology and information processing tool design, and the bidirectional influence between the two. In this dissertation, I detail three genres of information processing: of humans, by humans and for humans. For information processing of humans--that is, of humans' genomic sequencing data--I present two bioinformatics pipelines. To demonstrate information processing by humans, I describe a novel lossy image compression framework that is rooted in the human abilities to recognize, describe and generate images. Finally, I describe a science communication effort that employs computational tools to process information and produce journalistic media for human consumption. Together, these projects support the thesis of this dissertation: that information processing tools can be used to improve our understanding of human communication needs, and that an improved understanding of human communication can, in turn, be used to design better information processing tools.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Fischer-Hwang, Irena Tammy |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Weissman, Tsachy |
| Thesis advisor | Weissman, Tsachy |
| Thesis advisor | Gevaert, Olivier Michel Simonne |
| Thesis advisor | Zou, James |
| Degree committee member | Gevaert, Olivier Michel Simonne |
| Degree committee member | Zou, James |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Electrical Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Irena Fischer-Hwang. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Electrical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Irena Tammy Fischer-Hwang
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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