Enabling a Symphony of Devices

启用设备交响乐

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-06544
• 负责人: Wigdor, Daniel
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=668549
• 关键词: Enabling; Symphony; Devices

The*NSERC Portal has stripped this proposal of helpful formatting and hyperlinks. A*version with identical text, but which includes links to all papers and videos*referenced throughout, can be found at the URL below; all logging has been*disabled for the directory to preserve anonymity. This link is included with*permission from NSERC.*** ***http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dwigdor/discovery_2015 **** ***Imagine you are a*motivational speaker roaming a stage, a politician standing at a podium, a*professor tethered to a laptop, or a member of small group meeting. Foreseeing*and designing an application to tailor itself to all of these uses, and*thousands of others, is daunting. You could speak with only a projector; both*you and your audience would only see your slides. But what if you connected a*phone, and it displayed a list of slides, a timer, and your speaker notes. If*you added a smart watch, the display on your wrist could show you not only the*current time, but also the timer and the progression of your talk. Putting on a*head-mounted display, such as Google Glass would move your speaker notes,*providing a private teleprompter. What if you would like your hands free? Put*the phone away and the display of available slides resizes itself and appears*on your Glass. You could advance the slides by pressing a button on the watch,*by speaking a command, or by tapping the side of your Glass. Each of these*configurations is appropriate for a different type of talk. My work focuses on*how the user can tailor an application's behavior simply by adding the right*devices, and enabling the software to reshape and optimize its user experience*to the new topology. *** ***Critical to*achieving this future is meeting the challenge to enable software to grow and*shrink to take advantage of all available hardware, without the need for*developers to foresee all hardware combinations in advance. Research in*ubiquitous computing thus far has focused on enabling transitions between*devices, such reading a webpage or book on one device, and then moving it to*another to pick-up at the same point. This just begins to scratch the surface*of what is possible. *******We are developing universal interaction methods to maximize the utility of*multiple devices. Further, we are building tools to allow developers to define*their applications in a way that enables portions of the UI to be automatically*and intelligently allocated to any attached device capable of displaying UI,*based on the match between software needs and hardware capabilities. Our work*in this area is now expanding to enable the annexation of nearby headless*computing devices, such as mobile sensors, building tools to give developers*increasing levels of control. *

*NSERC 门户网站已删除了该提案中有用的格式和超链接。具有相同文本的 * 版本，但包含通篇引用的所有论文和视频 * 的链接，可以在下面的 URL 中找到；为了保持匿名，该目录的所有日志记录均已被禁用。此链接包含*NSERC 的许可。*** ***http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~dwigdor/discovery_2015 **** ***想象一下您是一位*在舞台上漫游的励志演讲者，站在讲台上的政客、使用笔记本电脑的教授或小组会议的成员。预见*并设计一个应用程序以适应所有这些用途以及*成千上万的其他用途，是令人畏惧的。只用投影仪就可以说话； *您和您的观众都只能看到您的幻灯片。但是，如果您连接了一部手机，并且它显示了幻灯片列表、计时器和演讲者备注，该怎么办？如果您添加了智能手表，手腕上的显示屏不仅可以显示当前时间，还可以显示计时器和演讲进度。戴上*头戴式显示器，例如谷歌眼镜，可以移动您的演讲者笔记，*提供私人提词器。如果您想解放双手怎么办？将*手机收起，可用幻灯片的显示会自行调整大小并显示*在您的 Glass 上。您可以通过按手表上的按钮、*通过说出命令或点击 Glass 的侧面来推进幻灯片。这些*配置中的每一个都适合不同类型的谈话。我的工作重点是*用户如何通过添加正确的*设备来定制应用程序的行为，并使软件能够根据新的拓扑重塑和优化其用户体验*。 *** ***实现这一未来的关键是迎接挑战，使软件能够增长和缩小以利用所有可用的硬件，而无需开发人员提前预见所有硬件组合。迄今为止，普适计算的研究重点是实现设备之间的转换，例如在一台设备上阅读网页或书籍，然后将其移动到另一台设备上以在同一点继续阅读。这才刚刚开始触及可能性的表面*。 ******我们正在开发通用交互方法，以最大限度地利用*多种设备。此外，我们正在构建工具，允许开发人员定义*他们的应用程序，使 UI 的部分能够自动*并智能地分配给任何能够显示 UI 的附加设备*，基于软件需求和硬件功能之间的匹配。我们在这一领域的工作*现在正在扩展，以实现附近无头*计算设备的吞并，例如移动传感器、构建工具，从而为开发人员*提供更高级别的控制。 *