The Designer's Outpost: A Task-centered Tangible Interface for Web Site Information Design

设计师的前哨站：以任务为中心的网站信息设计有形界面

• 批准号: 0084367
• 负责人: James Landay
• 金额: $ 26.84万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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: 2000-09-15 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0084367&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Designer; Outpost; Task; centered; Tangible

Research has shown that for some tasks computer input is best performed by manipulating physical objects. This project will explore the integration of paper and pixels for collaborative web design. The PI will investigate tangible and pen interaction techniques to support collocated collaboration for creating information hierarchies, as well as tools and interactions that support versioning of a physical artifact as well as manipulation of the artifact when all or part of the physical representation is unavailable. The PI will try to better understand virtual representations of a tangible information space for remote collaboration by creating a desktop GUI that allows remote users to see and manipulate the information space. He will explore the use of a "two-board UI" for hybrid tangible/virtual interaction, where designers in physically distant places can collaborate through the artifact under design. A strength of this project lies in its foundation in actual work practice, as observed by both the PI's research group and others. To insure the utility of the prototype system, the PI will conduct extensive evaluation of different areas of the system, and iterate system design based on these evaluations. He will have designers create actual information architectures on the prototype running in the lab, and will also perform long term usability studies by deploying a working prototype of the system in a web design firm. An outcome of the project will be a publicly available vision toolkit that can be used for tracking physical objects on a flat surface, and which will enable HCI researchers to create vision-based tangible user interfaces absent domain knowledge in computer vision. The work will contribute a better understanding of techniques for combining tracked physical objects with an interactive display surface, and will also contribute new techniques for collocated and remote collaboration, as well as a better understanding of the means of interacting with large, physical information architectures.

研究表明，对于某些任务，计算机输入最好通过操纵物理对象来执行。 该项目将探索纸张和像素的集成以进行协作网页设计。 PI 将研究有形和笔交互技术，以支持用于创建信息层次结构的并置协作，以及支持物理工件版本控制以及在全部或部分物理表示不可用时对工件进行操作的工具和交互。 PI 将尝试通过创建允许远程用户查看和操作信息空间的桌面 GUI 来更好地理解有形信息空间的虚拟表示，以进行远程协作。 他将探索使用“双板 UI”进行混合有形/虚拟交互，使物理距离较远的设计师可以通过设计中的工件进行协作。 正如 PI 研究小组和其他人所观察到的那样，该项目的优势在于它以实际工作实践为基础。 为了保证原型系统的实用性，PI将对系统的不同领域进行广泛的评估，并根据这些评估迭代系统设计。 他将让设计师在实验室运行的原型上创建实际的信息架构，还将通过在网页设计公司部署系统的工作原型来进行长期可用性研究。 该项目的成果将是一个公开可用的视觉工具包，可用于跟踪平面上的物理对象，并使人机交互研究人员能够在缺乏计算机视觉领域知识的情况下创建基于视觉的有形用户界面。 这项工作将有助于更好地理解将跟踪的物理对象与交互式显示表面相结合的技术，还将贡献用于并置和远程协作的新技术，以及更好地理解与大型物理信息架构交互的方式。