RUI: IIS: HCC: Small Projects: Enhancing Genomic Exploration through Reality-Based Interaction

RUI：IIS：HCC：小型项目：通过基于现实的交互加强基因组探索

• 批准号: 1017693
• 负责人: Orit Shaer
• 金额: $ 26.87万
• 依托单位: Wellesley College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1017693&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; IIS; HCC; Small; Projects

Over the past two decades, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research has generated a broad range of interaction styles that move beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. Key areas of innovation in this respect are tabletop, tangible, and embodied user interfaces. These interaction styles leverage users' existing knowledge and skills of interaction with the real non-digital world, thus we refer to them as reality-based interfaces (RBI). RBIs offer a natural, intuitive, and often collaborative form of interaction that reduces the mental effort required to learn and operate a computational system. While these advances in HCI have been successfully applied to a broad range of application domains, little research has been devoted to investigating reality-based interaction in the context of scientific discovery. However, it is particularly important to study reality-based interaction in this context where reducing users' mental workload and supporting collaborative work could lead to new scientific discoveries. The goals of this research are to design, develop, and evaluate the benefits of a tabletop reality-based interface for collaborative exploration of heterogeneous genomic information. The investigation will focus on how tabletop reality-based interaction can support collaborative research and facilitate new discoveries. Specifically, the investigator will address two questions: What is the key computational functionality required to enable an effective use of a tabletop reality-based interface for genomic research? And, can reality-based interface improve users? work flow and facilitate the development of new biological insights?This research program addresses a number of broader impacts. First, successful results of this project will foster collaboration and improve work flow in genomic research, thus, may lead to new scientific discoveries. This investigation will contribute a design, implementation and validation of a tabletop reality-based interface that supports collaborative genomic research, and a set of design requirements for supporting collaborative scientific discovery in areas where vast amounts of heterogeneous information is explored. Second, this project will train undergraduate female researchers, making them an integral part of the research team. Finally, the project will have a significant impact on three computing and science courses in a women?s college.

在过去的二十年中，人类计算机的互动（HCI）研究产生了广泛的互动方式，这些风格超越了台式机，成为新的物理和社会环境。在这方面，创新的关键领域是桌面，有形和具体的用户界面。这些互动样式利用了用户与实际非数字世界互动的现有知识和技能，因此我们将其称为基于现实的接口（RBI）。 RBI提供一种自然，直观且经常协作的互动形式，可减少学习和操作计算系统所需的心理努力。尽管HCI的这些进步已成功地应用于广泛的应用领域，但在科学发现的背景下，很少研究研究基于现实的互动。但是，在这种情况下，研究基于现实的互动尤其重要，在这种情况下，减少用户的心理工作量和支持协作工作可能会导致新的科学发现。这项研究的目标是设计，开发和评估基于桌面现实的界面的好处，以协作探索异质基因组信息。调查将重点介绍基于桌面的现实互动如何支持协作研究并促进新发现。具体而言，研究者将解决两个问题：有效利用基于桌面现实的界面进行基因组研究所需的关键计算功能是什么？而且，基于现实的接口可以改善用户吗？工作流程并促进新的生物学见解的发展？该研究计划解决了许多更广泛的影响。首先，该项目的成功结果将促进协作并改善基因组研究的工作流程，因此可能会导致新的科学发现。这项调查将贡献基于桌面现实的界面的设计，实施和验证，该界面支持协作基因组研究，并在探索大量异构信息的领域中支持协作科学发现的一系列设计要求。其次，该项目将培训本科女性研究人员，使其成为研究团队不可或缺的一部分。最后，该项目将对女性大学的三个计算和科学课程产生重大影响。