Augmenting the Periphery with Large-Scale Visual Displays

通过大型视觉显示器增强周边环境

• 批准号: 9988712
• 负责人: Elizabeth Mynatt
• 金额: $ 57.72万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-08-01 至 2004-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9988712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Augmenting; Periphery; Large; Scale; Visual

The goal of this research is to explore and evaluate the addition of visual peripheral displays to human-computer interfaces. Through a series of laboratory experiments, in conjunction with usability evaluations and field trials of system prototypes, the PI will conduct an in-depth exploration of how peripheral information can be used effectively in an office setting. The PI and her team will design and build an interface that uses projected visual displays to extend the user's virtual workspace past the confines of his/her desktop monitor, and then use it to augment an office environment in a way that supports current working practices. The emphasis on supporting current work practice, with its resulting inclusion of desktop computers, is in sharp contrast to visions of tomorrow's world where the desktop computer is replaced by either a plethora of computing devices (ubiquitous computing) or a single personal head-worn display that superimposes information over the wearer's view of the world (wearable augmented reality). The PI posits that her approach, coupled with a set of carefully designed laboratory experiments, will lead to a deep understanding of the issues involved in deploying peripheral displays in realistic environments. This research is expected to have several important outcomes. It will lead to techniques for determining and modeling a user's working contexts, especially the ranking and clustering of documents within those contexts; these will enable the user to easily shift between tasks, quickly regaining the last state of previous efforts and maintaining an awareness of documents used in the past. This research will also lead to techniques for visually presenting peripheral information, perhaps as visual montages designed to take advantage of peripheral perception mechanisms by conveying the salient portions of a piece of information, including its surrounding context, while remaining unobtrusive. Finally, the research will provide insight into the design of a 3D peripheral space that augments the use of traditional desktop terminals, with emphasis on the division of this space into logical groups based on the relevance and familiarity of the material, and the dynamic behavior of the space as material becomes more or less relevant to the current task.

本研究的目标是探索和评估在人机界面中添加视觉外围显示器。 通过一系列实验室实验，结合系统原型的可用性评估和现场试验，PI将深入探索如何在办公环境中有效利用外围信息。 PI 和她的团队将设计和构建一个界面，该界面使用投影视觉显示来扩展用户的虚拟工作空间，超越其桌面显示器的限制，然后使用它以支持当前工作实践的方式增强办公环境。对支持当前工作实践的强调以及由此带来的台式计算机的纳入，与未来世界的愿景形成鲜明对比，在未来世界中，台式计算机将被大量计算设备（普适计算）或单个个人头戴式显示器所取代将信息叠加在佩戴者的世界观上（可穿戴增强现实）。 PI 认为，她的方法加上一系列精心设计的实验室实验，将有助于深入了解在现实环境中部署外围显示器所涉及的问题。 这项研究预计将产生几个重要成果。 它将带来确定和建模用户工作环境的技术，特别是这些环境中文档的排名和聚类； 这些将使用户能够轻松地在任务之间切换，快速恢复之前工作的最后状态并保持对过去使用的文档的了解。 这项研究还将催生视觉呈现外围信息的技术，也许是视觉蒙太奇，旨在通过传达一条信息的显着部分（包括其周围的上下文）来利用外围感知机制，同时保持不引人注目。 最后，该研究将深入了解 3D 外围空间的设计，增强传统桌面终端的使用，重点是根据材料的相关性和熟悉度以及材料的动态行为将该空间划分为逻辑组。作为材料的空间或多或少与当前任务相关。