The Designer's Outpost: A Task-centered Tangible Interface for Web Site Information Design

研究表明，对于某些任务，计算机输入最好通过操纵物理对象来执行。 这个项目将探索纸张和像素的整合，用于协同网页设计。 PI将研究有形和笔交互技术，以支持创建信息层次结构的并置协作，以及支持物理工件版本控制的工具和交互，以及在所有或部分物理表示不可用时对工件进行操作。 PI将通过创建允许远程用户查看和操作信息空间的桌面GUI，尝试更好地理解用于远程协作的有形信息空间的虚拟表示。 他将探索使用“双板UI”进行混合有形/虚拟交互，在物理上遥远的地方，设计师可以通过设计中的工件进行协作。 该项目的优势在于其在实际工作实践中的基础，正如PI的研究小组和其他人所观察到的那样。 为了确保原型系统的实用性，PI将对系统的不同领域进行广泛的评估，并根据这些评估来确定系统设计。 他将让设计师在实验室运行的原型上创建实际的信息架构，并通过在网页设计公司部署系统的工作原型来进行长期的可用性研究。 该项目的成果将是一个公开的视觉工具包，可用于跟踪平面上的物理对象，这将使HCI研究人员能够创建基于视觉的有形用户界面，而无需计算机视觉领域的知识。 这项工作将有助于更好地理解技术相结合的跟踪物理对象与交互式显示表面，也将有助于新的技术配置和远程协作，以及更好地理解与大型物理信息架构的交互手段。

Research has shown that for some tasks computer input is best performed by manipulating physical objects. This project will explore the integration of paper and pixels for collaborative web design. The PI will investigate tangible and pen interaction techniques to support collocated collaboration for creating information hierarchies, as well as tools and interactions that support versioning of a physical artifact as well as manipulation of the artifact when all or part of the physical representation is unavailable. The PI will try to better understand virtual representations of a tangible information space for remote collaboration by creating a desktop GUI that allows remote users to see and manipulate the information space. He will explore the use of a "two-board UI" for hybrid tangible/virtual interaction, where designers in physically distant places can collaborate through the artifact under design. A strength of this project lies in its foundation in actual work practice, as observed by both the PI's research group and others. To insure the utility of the prototype system, the PI will conduct extensive evaluation of different areas of the system, and iterate system design based on these evaluations. He will have designers create actual information architectures on the prototype running in the lab, and will also perform long term usability studies by deploying a working prototype of the system in a web design firm. An outcome of the project will be a publicly available vision toolkit that can be used for tracking physical objects on a flat surface, and which will enable HCI researchers to create vision-based tangible user interfaces absent domain knowledge in computer vision. The work will contribute a better understanding of techniques for combining tracked physical objects with an interactive display surface, and will also contribute new techniques for collocated and remote collaboration, as well as a better understanding of the means of interacting with large, physical information architectures.