ITR: Environment Management for Hybrid User Interfaces

ITR：混合用户界面的环境管理

• 批准号: 0082961
• 负责人: Steven Feiner
• 金额: $ 45万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 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: 2000-09-01 至 2003-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0082961&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; Environment; Management; Hybrid; User

This is the first year funding of a three-year continuing award. Hybrid user interfaces combine together multiple displays and interaction devices to benefit from the advantages of each. For example, a hybrid user interface could be constructed in which multiple users view one or more common displays, such as a wall-mounted data visualization and a desk-top virtual workbench 3D model. At the same time, each user might see complementary private material, customized to her own information needs, and overlaid on and registered with the common displays---an augmented reality that is presented on personal, tracked, hand-held or head-worn see-through displays.This project addresses environment management, the task of managing large numbers of virtual objects on large numbers of displays in hybrid user interfaces. More complex than the tasks involved in current window management, environment management will be especially challenging if it is to address the needs of future mobile, collaborating users, whose proximity to other users, displays, and interaction devices may change rapidly and unpredictably as users move about. This work explores an alternative to direct manipulation approaches, in which knowledge-based environment management tools take over many low-level tasks to avoid overwhelming the user. The goal is to increase a user's effectiveness by making it possible for her to exert higher-level control over the layout and contents of her personal and shared work environment. This project will develop the underlying concepts for hybrid user interfaces and effective environment management facilities, and will design, demonstrate, and test research prototypes that embody these concepts. Special emphasis is placed on issues raised by collaborative, 3D augmented environments that exploit a wide range of displays (held, worn, and stationary), including head-tracked see-through displays that create augmented realities, in which virtual objects coexist in the same surrounding space as users and other physical objects. User interface design approaches that can promote shorter task performance time, lower error rate, or greater user satisfaction, will be vital for improving our ability to interact with information and with each other in the nontraditional world of collaborative mobile computing.

这是为期三年的裁决的第一年资金。混合用户界面将多个显示器和交互设备组合在一起，从每个显示器中受益。 例如，可以构建混合用户界面，其中多个用户查看一个或多个常见的显示，例如壁挂式数据可视化和台式虚拟工作台3D模型。 At the same time, each user might see complementary private material, customized to her own information needs, and overlaid on and registered with the common displays---an augmented reality that is presented on personal, tracked, hand-held or head-worn see-through displays.This project addresses environment management, the task of managing large numbers of virtual objects on large numbers of displays in hybrid user interfaces.与当前窗口管理有关的任务更为复杂，如果要满足未来移动设备的需求，与其他用户，显示和交互设备接近的用户的需求可能会迅速变化，而用户随着用户的转移而迅速变化，则环境管理将特别具有挑战性。这项工作探讨了直接操纵方法的替代方法，在这种方法中，基于知识的环境管理工具接管了许多低级任务，以避免压倒用户。 目的是通过使她能够对自己的个人和共享工作环境的布局和内容进行更高层次的控制来提高用户的有效性。该项目将开发用于混合用户界面和有效环境管理设施的基本概念，并将设计，演示和测试体现这些概念的研究原型。 特别强调的是由协作，3D增强环境提出的问题，这些问题利用了广泛的显示器（固定，磨损和固定），包括具有头部跟踪的透明显示器，创建增强现实的现实，其中虚拟对象在与用户和其他物理对象和其他物理对象相同的周围空间中共同存在。用户界面设计方法可以促进较短的任务性能时间，较低的错误率或更高的用户满意度，对于提高我们与信息互动以及在协作移动计算的非传统世界中相互互动的能力至关重要。