MRI: Development of Viz Tangibles and VizNet: Instrumentation for Interactive Visualization, Simulation, and Collaboration

MRI：Viz Tangibles 和 VizNet 的开发：用于交互式可视化、模拟和协作的仪器

• 批准号: 0521559
• 负责人: Brygg Ullmer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0521559&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Development; Viz; Tangibles; VizNet

This project, developing a new kind of research instrument and tools for interactive, collaborative, networked 3D visualization, creates a new genre of physical interaction devices, called "viz tangibles." These devices allow users to load and save data, steer parameters, navigate in time, control teleconference links, and perform other key operations. The system can be easily moved between conference rooms or offices, and can be connected with mono or stereo projectors. The effort enables scientists to significantly enhance the utility, usability, and collaborative potential for scientific visualization in research, education, collaboration, and interaction with the general public. The resulting tools will be deployed, utilized, and integrated into research and education at five Louisiana campuses which are already linked together by numerous academic collaborations. The central elements of these platforms, the "viz tangibles," are small, modular interaction devices, typically embedded with different interactors, indicators, and networked microcontrollers. So far, three basic and three specialized viz tangibles, interconnected physically and functionally following a simple grammar, have been implemented. One device loads and saves online information, applications, and parameters, which are referenced with RFID-tagged cards. Another device includes a rebindable "parameter wheel," that supports the manipulation of continuous discrete parameters. A third device provides VCR-like button controls that may drive a variety of interactions. Together, these devices provide core operations for a wide variety of visualization and simulation applications, with functionality resembling the GUI "file" and "edit" menus, but optimized for simple, collaborative, semi-immersive, divided-attention use. The development includes researchers with expertise in visualization, human-computer-interaction, grid computing, software engineering, and electronic, mechanical, and product design. Collaborators include faculty in biomechanics from LSU Medical, Southern U., LaTech; chemistry; computational fluid dynamics; coastal and hurricane modeling; and numerical relativity. Broader Impact: Application of these viz tangibles range from the laboratory to the science education center. The network links research institutions, a medical center, a historically black university, and a supercomputer center.

该项目开发了一种新型的研究工具和工具，用于交互式，协作，网络3D可视化，创建了一种新型的物理互动设备，称为“ Viz Tangiables”。这些设备允许用户加载和保存数据，转向参数，及时导航，控制电话会议链接并执行其他关键操作。该系统可以轻松地在会议室或办公室之间移动，并且可以与单声道或立体声投影仪连接。这项工作使科学家能够显着增强研究，教育，协作和与公众互动的科学可视化的实用性，可用性和协作潜力。所得工具将在路易斯安那州五个校园中部署，利用和集成到研究和教育中，这些校园已经与许多学术合作联系在一起。这些平台的中心元素，“ Viz Tangiables”是小型的模块化交互设备，通常嵌入不同的交互器，指示器和网络的微控制器。到目前为止，已经实施了三个基本和三个专业的viz参观物，在简单的语法之后在物理和功能上互连。一个设备加载并保存在线信息，应用程序和参数，并用RFID标记的卡引用。另一个设备包括可重新固定的“参数轮”，该设备支持连续离散参数的操纵。第三个设备提供类似VCR的按钮控件，可能会驱动各种交互。这些设备共同为各种可视化和仿真应用提供了核心操作，功能类似于GUI“文件”和“编辑”菜单，但针对简单，协作，半弱点，分裂的专门使用进行了优化。该开发人员包括具有可视化，人力计算机交流，网格计算，软件工程以及电子，机械和产品设计方面的专业知识的研究人员。合作者包括来自美国南部LSU Medical的生物力学教职员工，LATECH；化学;计算流体动力学；沿海和飓风建模；和数值相对论。更广泛的影响：这些VIZ有形物品的应用范围从实验室到科学教育中心。该网络将研究机构，医学中心，历史悠久的黑人大学和超级计算机中心联系起来。