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

这是连续四年获奖的第一年。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，这种方法将使她能够克服多维缩放（MDS）的传统方法的关键限制，即它不能处理感知空间的维度超过物理空间的情况。还将评估几个人机接口的信息传输能力，目的是开发一个有效的范例，以获得可靠的信息传输估计。这两个问题的工作将在一个商业上可用的力反馈显示器，一个新的触觉方向显示器，和一个新的感应椅的背景下进行。通过使用非常不同的传感器和执行器技术来开发这些接口，P1希望开发一个通用的基于信息的框架，并将其应用于HC 1的其他领域。新的基于信息的框架将以多种方式纳入研究生和本科生课程和研究项目，包括为本科生提供实践研究机会，使他们通过技术卓越和对K-12学童的指导来练习领导技能;这些活动将在一定程度上与美国宇航局合作进行，具体方式是参与美国宇航局的“减轻重力学生飞行机会计划”（俗称“呕吐彗星”）。

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").