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How Fast Can Our Horses Go? Measuring the Quality of Positioning Technologies
The Journal of Navigation ( IF 1.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 , DOI: 10.1017/s0373463320000673
Anahid Basiri

Whether Henry Ford or someone else gave us this famous quote, ‘If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses’, we may agree that it implies there is a limit to what we can expect from the performance of an existing solution. Science and technology always try to push the boundaries and ‘improve’; improving the quality of our lives or improving the quality of technologies. We, as researchers in the area of navigation, are no exception; we want to improve the quality of navigation services. And there are many ways to do so, and challenges and limitations to those attempts. Some researchers look to improve the accuracy, the reliability, the integrity through different approaches. Some try to reduce or model noise, some try to minimise human error, and some use novel techniques and algorithms for better prediction. Of course, when ‘our horses cannot go any faster’ and there is not much space for improvement for a certain technology or service, researchers may come up with a completely new solution, such as an automobile. Almost all new technologies go through the same exploration period; at the beginning, we want to see how and if it works so we try simple tasks, but then we become more ambitious (or greedier!) and so we introduce it to more difficult challenges until it hits the breaking point. At this point, curious researchers and inventors try to push the boundaries and make the technology better, and if improvement is not possible, they build (invent) a new solution. But what is the ‘quality’ that many of us want to improve? How the quality of a technology or service can be measured in the first place?

中文翻译:

我们的马能跑多快?测量定位技术的质量

无论是亨利福特还是其他人给了我们这句名言,“如果我问人们他们想要什么,他们会说更快的马”,我们可能会同意这意味着我们对马的表现的期望是有限的。现有的解决方案。科技总是试图突破界限并“改进”;提高我们的生活质量或提高技术质量。作为导航领域的研究人员,我们也不例外。我们希望提高导航服务的质量。有很多方法可以做到这一点,以及这些尝试的挑战和限制。一些研究人员希望通过不同的方法来提高准确性、可靠性和完整性。有些人试图减少或模拟噪声,有些人试图最大限度地减少人为错误,有些人使用新技术和算法来更好地预测。当然,当“我们的马不能跑得更快”并且某项技术或服务没有太大的改进空间时,研究人员可能会提出一个全新的解决方案,例如汽车。几乎所有的新技术都经历了相同的探索期;一开始,我们想看看它如何以及是否有效,所以我们尝试简单的任务,但后来我们变得更加雄心勃勃(或者更贪婪!),所以我们将它引入更困难的挑战,直到它达到临界点。在这一点上,好奇的研究人员和发明家试图突破界限,让技术变得更好,如果无法改进,他们会构建(发明)一个新的解决方案。但是,我们许多人想要提高的“质量”是什么?首先如何衡量技术或服务的质量?当“我们的马不能跑得更快”并且某项技术或服务没有太多改进空间时,研究人员可能会想出一个全新的解决方案,例如汽车。几乎所有的新技术都经历了相同的探索期;一开始,我们想看看它如何以及是否有效,所以我们尝试简单的任务,但后来我们变得更加雄心勃勃(或者更贪婪!),所以我们将它引入更困难的挑战,直到它达到临界点。在这一点上,好奇的研究人员和发明家试图突破界限,让技术变得更好,如果无法改进,他们会构建(发明)一个新的解决方案。但是,我们许多人想要提高的“质量”是什么?首先如何衡量技术或服务的质量?当“我们的马不能跑得更快”并且某项技术或服务没有太多改进空间时,研究人员可能会想出一个全新的解决方案,例如汽车。几乎所有的新技术都经历了相同的探索期;一开始,我们想看看它如何以及是否有效,所以我们尝试简单的任务,但后来我们变得更加雄心勃勃(或者更贪婪!),所以我们将它引入更困难的挑战,直到它达到临界点。在这一点上,好奇的研究人员和发明家试图突破界限,让技术变得更好,如果无法改进,他们会构建(发明)一个新的解决方案。但是,我们许多人想要提高的“质量”是什么?首先如何衡量技术或服务的质量?但是,我们许多人想要提高的“质量”是什么?首先如何衡量技术或服务的质量?
更新日期:2021-01-15
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