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.

这是为期三年的连续奖励的第一年资助。混合用户界面将多个显示器和交互设备组合在一起，以受益于各自的优点。 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公共显示器，例如壁挂式数据可视化和桌面虚拟工作台3D模型。 同时，每个用户可能会看到补充的私人材料，根据自己的信息需求定制，并叠加在公共显示器上并注册——这是一种呈现在个人、可追踪、手持或头戴式设备上的增强现实透明显示器。该项目解决环境管理问题，即管理混合用户界面中大量显示器上的大量虚拟对象的任务。环境管理比当前窗口管理中涉及的任务更复杂，如果要满足未来移动协作用户的需求，环境管理将尤其具有挑战性，这些用户与其他用户、显示器和交互设备的距离可能会随着用户的移动而快速且不可预测地变化关于。这项工作探索了直接操作方法的替代方法，其中基于知识的环境管理工具接管许多低级任务，以避免让用户不知所措。 目标是通过使用户能够对其个人和共享工作环境的布局和内容进行更高级别的控制来提高用户的效率。该项目将开发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。 特别强调协作、3D 增强环境所带来的问题，这些环境利用各种显示器（手持式、佩戴式和固定式），包括创建增强现实的头部跟踪透视显示器，其中虚拟对象共存于同一个显示器中。作为用户和其他物理对象的周围空间。用户界面设计方法可以缩短任务执行时间、降低错误率或提高用户满意度，对于提高我们在协作移动计算的非传统世界中与信息和彼此交互的能力至关重要。