Collaborative Proposal: Visual Interfaces for Engineering Innovation

协作提案：工程创新的可视化界面

• 批准号: 1127609
• 负责人: Sundar Krishnamurty
• 金额: $ 8.5万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-15 至 2014-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1127609&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Proposal; Visual; Interfaces; Engineering

Center for e-Design Proposal #1127609Proposal #1127664This proposal seeks funding for the Center for e-Design sites at the University of Massachusetts and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Funding Requests for Fundamental Research are authorized by an NSF approved solicitation, NSF 10-601. The solicitation invites I/UCRCs to submit proposals for support of industry-defined fundamental research. The design process typically entails generation of numerous design alternatives followed by reduction of these by virtue of application of different criteria. Ongoing application of computing tools to create an entirely electronic process for e-design have been enabling but can have the effect of saturating the process with numerous alternatives. The proposed work seeks to bring together researchers in the psychological theory of innovation, computer science and human computer interaction to transform the innovative process of design from one which is ad hoc to a more systematic search through the space of features. The effort aims to implement the resulting strategies in a semantic framework leveraging the concepts from visual perception, cognition and human computer interfaces that will allow visualization on the part of the designer of the most promising features for each specific design case.The proposed research has the potential to enable e-design tools to overcome current limitations and improve the process and outcomes of design while at the same time providing insights into the process of human innovation. Both, if successful, could significantly improve design efficiency resulting in cost savings and reduction of time to market. The work is supported by individual industry members of the center and has the potential to extend the portfolio of the center by virtue of the major innovation in e-design tools enabled by integration of cognitive principles. Both inside and outside the center, the impact on design education and execution has the potential for broad impact in the engineering community.

电子设计中心提案#1127609提案#1127664该提案为马萨诸塞大学和弗吉尼亚理工学院及州立大学的电子设计中心站点寻求资金。 基础研究的资助申请由 NSF 批准的征集 NSF 10-601 授权。 此次征集邀请 I/UCRC 提交支持行业定义的基础研究的提案。设计过程通常需要生成大量的设计方案，然后通过应用不同的标准来减少这些方案。 持续应用计算工具来创建电子设计的完全电子化流程已经成为可能，但可能会导致流程中出现大量替代方案。 拟议的工作旨在将创新心理学理论、计算机科学和人机交互的研究人员聚集在一起，将设计的创新过程从临时性的过程转变为通过特征空间进行更系统的搜索。 这项工作的目的是在语义框架中实施最终的策略，利用视觉感知、认知和人机界面的概念，使设计者能够可视化每个特定设计案例最有前途的功能。拟议的研究有电子设计工具有潜力克服当前的局限性，改进设计的过程和结果，同时提供对人类创新过程的见解。 如果两者成功，都可以显着提高设计效率，从而节省成本并缩短上市时间。这项工作得到了该中心各个行业成员的支持，并且凭借认知原理集成所实现的电子设计工具的重大创新，有可能扩展该中心的产品组合。无论是在中心内部还是外部，对设计教育和执行的影响都有可能对工程界产生广泛的影响。