Collaborative Research: HCC: Small: Programmable Visual Capabilities of Environments through 3D printed Light-transfer

合作研究：HCC：小型：通过 3D 打印光传输实现环境的可编程视觉功能

• 批准号: 2213843
• 负责人: Yang Zhang
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2213843&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; HCC; Small; Programmable; Collaborative; Research; HCC; Small; Programmable

Although 3D printing is now inexpensive enough for end-users to create custom interactive devices with sensing and actuation capabilities that leverage visual feedback, most resulting objects are either passive or require complicated, expensive, and high-maintenance electronics. Furthermore, the design and fabrication of custom functions, and the reprogramming of those functions in physical objects once fabricated, are nearly impossible for end-users with little experience or without domain expertise. This project aims to change that situation by increasing users’ perception of everyday objects and their functions to support decision making and improve performance in associated tasks. Project outcomes will have broad impact by advancing the state of the art in 3D printing of everyday objects and interactive devices with enhanced visual capabilities for applications in smart environments. Additional impact will derive from leveraging the interplay between the 3D printing process and material characteristics to equip visual capabilities with passive light-transfer properties and thereby foster end-user consideration of visual literacy when designing battery-less smart objects that convey digital information. To achieve these goals the project will center around four main research activities. First, the team will conduct holistic material experiments to characterize the design space of light-transfer materials and micro-structures, in order to understand their capabilities in charging, releasing, and reflecting light energy to sense, communicate, and display information. This will be followed by a series of hypothesis testing experiments to ascertain the effect of improved human perception on recognizing embedded information. Second, the team will work with domain experts (i.e., in architecture and visualization) as well as engineering/design students using iterative participatory design techniques to distil the knowledge obtained in the previous activity to identify opportunities, challenges, and needs in design support tools, and to implement practical application prototypes that afford the new interactions, and actuation mechanisms and 3D printing parameters will be associated with significant design parameters. Third, toolkits will be developed based on these design parameters to facilitate end-user visual literacy in 3D object design, and to convey key information when developing new interactive devices. Lastly, rigorous technical evaluation and user studies will be designed to validate the approach both quantitatively and qualitatively.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

尽管现在3D打印足以使最终用户能够创建具有灵敏度和激活功能的自定义交互式设备，以利用视觉反馈，但大多数产生的对象都是被动的，或者需要复杂，昂贵且高维护的电子设备。此外，对于几乎没有经验或没有域专业知识的最终用户来说，定制功能的设计和结构以及在物理对象中的这些功能的重编程几乎是不可能的。该项目的目的是通过增加用户对每天对象及其功能的看法来改变这种情况，以支持决策制定并改善相关任务的性能。项目成果将通过在每天的3D打印对象和交互式设备的3D打印中推进最新技术，并具有增强的视觉功能，可在智能环境中进行应用。在利用3D打印过程和材料特征之间的相互作用中，还会引起其他影响，以配备视觉功能以及被动轻型转移属性，从而在设计传达数字信息的无电池智能对象时促进最终用户考虑视觉素养。为了实现这些目标，该项目将围绕四项主要研究活动。首先，该团队将进行整体材料实验，以表征光转换材料和微观结构的设计空间，以了解其在充电，释放和反映光能以感知，交流和显示信息方面的能力。随后将进行一系列假设测试实验，以确定改善人类感知对识别嵌入信息的影响。其次，该团队将使用迭代参与设计技术与领域专家（即建筑和可视化）以及工程/设计学生一起工作，以散布上一项活动中获得的知识，以识别机遇，挑战和需求，并在设计支持工具中的需求以及实施实用的实用型原型，这些应用程序具有新的相互作用，并提供新的互动机制，以及与3D打印的参数相关的参数。第三，将根据这些设计参数开发工具包，以促进3D对象设计中的最终用户视觉素养，并在开发新的交互式设备时传达关键信息。最后，严格的技术评估和用户研究将旨在验证定量和公平的验证方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来诚实地支持支持。