CAREER: A Human-Centered Approach to Haptic Human-Machine Interface Research

这是第一次发现为期4年的持续性奖项。P1将研究与界面相关的感知维度，目的是探索一种基于心理物理实验的新方法的可能性，这种新方法将使她能够克服传统多维尺度（MDS）方法的关键限制，即它无法处理感知空间维度超过物理空间维度的情况。还将评估几个人机界面的信息传输能力，目的是开发一种有效的范例，以获得可靠的信息传输估计。在这两个问题上的工作将在商业上可用的力反馈显示器、一种新的触觉定向显示器和一种新型传感椅子的背景下进行。通过使用不同的传感器和执行器技术研究这些接口，P1希望开发一个通用的基于信息的框架，并将其应用于HC1的其他领域。新的基于信息的框架将以多种方式整合到研究生和本科生的课程和研究项目中，包括为本科生提供动手研究的机会，通过技术卓越和指导K-12学童来实践他们的领导技能；这些活动将通过参与美国宇航局的“失重学生飞行机会计划”（俗称“呕吐彗星”）与美国宇航局合作进行。

This is the first year of fimding of a 4-year continuing award. The P1 will investigate the perceptualdimensionality associated with an interface, with the goal of exploring the possibility that a new approachbased on psychophysical experimentation will allow herto overcome the crucial limitation of the traditionalmethod of multidimensional scaling (MDS) that it cannot deal with the situation where the dimensionality ofthe perceptual space exceeds that of the physical space. The information transmission capabilities of severalhuman-machine interfaces will also be assessed, with the goal of developing an efficient paradigm forobtaining reliable estimates of information transfer. Work on these two issues will be performed in the context of a commercially available force-feedback display, a new haptic directional display, and a novel sensing chair. By working on these interfaces with very different sensor and actuator technologies, the P1 hopes to develop a general information-based framework with applications to other areas of HC1. The new information-based framework will be integrated in several ways into the graduate and undergraduate curriculum and research projects, including hands-on research opportunities for undergraduate students wherein they practice their leadership skills through technical excellence and mentoring of K-12 school children; these activities will be conducted in part in collaboration with NASA through involvement in its Reduced-Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program (colloquially known as the "vomit-comet").