Information Society, 2015, Issue 5
Keywords and Abstracts
Social and Economic Well-Being of the Modern Information Society
FROLOVA Elena Aleksandrovna, RYZHKOVA Marina Vyacheslavovna, KASHAPOVA Elmira Ramisovna
The article reveals characteristics of the essence and factors of social and economic well-being of a person in the information society. Information competence of elderly people has been examined based on Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) data and findings of the sociological study held in Tomsk Region. Interconnection of information competence of population and well-being level has been discovered. It has been proven that high level of information competence is directly related with high level of economic and social well-being of elderly people in this region.
Keywords: Well-being, elderly people, information society, sociological studies, Tomsk Region.
Innovation Resistance as a Threat to the Social Well-Being
BARYSHEVA Galina Anzelmovna, DIBROV Artem Mikhailovich
The article provides definition of socio-economic concept of “innovation resistance”. The authors consider specific features of innovation resistance affecting the development of information society and knowledge economy, as well as possible ways to overcome it. Importance of overcoming innovation resistance as a driver of socio-economic well-being of the society is emphasized.
Keywords: Knowledge economy, information society, social well-being, innovation resistance.
Modern Trends in Science and Technology of the Information Society as a Basis for the Future Technological Progress
KARTASHOVA Anna Aleksandrovna, SHIRKO Tatiana Ivanovna
The article considers basic trends in science and research area that determine perspectives of scientific knowledge progress in the context of analysis of modern social development strategies and shaping knowledge society. Based on the analysis of today’s state and potential of integration of education, science and production, the authors substantiate interdisciplinarity, polydisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as research principles of the science of future.
Keywords: Science, technology, information society, knowledge-driven society, progress, future.
Algorithm for Generating Individual 3D Model of Human Face from the Bitmap Image of the Face and a Set of Specific 3D Models
NEBABA Stepan Gennadievich, ZAKHAROVA Alena Aleksandrovna, ANDREEV Sergey Yuryevich
The article considers existing methods of generating 3D face model. The authors offer an algorithm of generating such a model from a bitmap image and a set of specific 3D models, as well as an algorithm of forming images of different face dimensions using calculated 3D model to create biovector clusters. The authors have demonstrated results of use of the face images generation algorithms from different angles.
Keywords: Computer vision, face recognition, specific face points, active form models, 3D face model, deformed face model, biovector, nearest-neighbor method.
Information Technologies for Studying of Elderly People’s Well-Being
BARYSHEVA Galina Anzelmovna, TARAN Ekaterina Aleksandrovna, Olga Evgenyevna KOROVINA
Global demographic changes demonstrate a trend of population aging and, as a consequence, the importance of the elderly person as an economic and political actor.
The article considers one of the approaches to solving the multifaceted issue of elderly people’s well-being enhancement. The authors have analyzed the role of information technologies in reducing social isolation of an elderly person, especially after the retirement. As an example, the authors describe LifeShare project implemented in Tomsk Polytechnic University and intended to ensure that elderly people have the feeling of being involved and needed.
Keywords: information technologies, elderly person, well-being.
Model of Urban Transport System as a Tool to Forecast Parameters of Route Transport Traffic
POGREBNOY Vadim Yuryevich
The article is devoted to development of methods of sampling time and the formation of patterns of urban/street road and route traffic network. A digital map and graph theory methods are used to describe the route traffic network. The suggested model of the transport system allows projecting vehicles’ coordinates on the route network and distributing registered values of route transport in time and space.
Projected real-time coordinates and statistical values are distributed in space and time and allow forecasting future values of traffic parameters in view of the actual traffic situation. The developed forecast and the route network presented as digraph are used when building the shortest routes, developing timetables and traffic schedules for public transport, recognizing street and road network facilities by their text descriptions.
Keywords: transport system, forecasting, route network, street and road network, navigation telemetry data, distribution in time and space, traffic parameter, graph.
Young People and Sustainability – A Relationship with a Future?
Jasmine GODEMANN (Translation and comments by E.V. Fell, N.A. Lukyanova)
This article was first published in 2007, in the first issue of UNESCO today (Journal of the German Commission for UNESCO) [1]. It studies the role young people play in implementing the sustainable development trends. Observations and conclusions of the author are rather of theoretical character and deal with German young people. The publication offers comments to study of J. Godemann that helps get an idea of how problems related with the attitude of young people to sustainable development issues are solved in Great Britain.
Keywords: Future, Western European young people, sustainable development, environmental conditions, recycling.
