CRI: Development of an Ambient Computing Usability Laboratory

本项目旨在为环境计算设备的多模型人机界面的快速应用开发研究新的架构和编程模型，旨在建立一个设计和开发无处不在的智能设备的用户界面的实验室。有了一个用于集成和配置低级使能技术的开发框架和编程模型，以产生用户与环境中的计算设备交互（例如，交谈）的期望行为，在配置环境（智能）环境的交互式编程开发环境中的这项工作，将必须理解如何使用高级技术的负担从用户转移到编程环境。实验工作的重点是故事板的使用，故事板是一种视觉媒介，用于定义描述人们的行为和智能设备在环境计算设置中的预期行为的场景。然后，场景生成设备的运行时行为，为最终用户提供一个环境，以便在环境计算设置中设计、测试和评估智能设备的接口。预期该方法将通过用说明性界面取代显式编程，增加一般用户对环境控制的可访问性。还考虑了一种用于编写环境计算活动脚本的可视化编程语言。计算资源通常嵌入在烤面包机、桌子、门、墙壁等设备中，赋予设备一种智能感。人们通过直接操作与这些设备进行交互，或者通过接近这些设备进行交互。由于这些智能设备无处不在，甚至可能对用户来说是不可见的，因此设计和开发用户界面的复杂性提出了本研究要解决的主要挑战。更广泛的影响：环境计算的新兴领域，也被称为无所不在的、普遍的、不可见的或平静的计算，可能成为计算的下一个浪潮。该框架是综合发展平台的一部分，有助于在少数民族服务机构内开发课程和培训学生。

This project, studying new architectural and programming models for the rapid application development of multi-model human computer interfaces for ambient computing devices, aims at establishing a lab that will design and develop the user interface to ubiquitous intelligent devices. With a developmental framework and programming model for integrating and configuring the low-level enabling technologies to produce a desired behavior for a user to interact (e.g., talk) with a computing device in an environment, this work in interactive programming development environments for configuring ambient (intelligent) environments shifts the burden of having to understand how to use advanced technology from the user to the programming environment. The experimental work focuses on the use of Storyboarding, a visual medium for defining scenarios describing the actions of people and expected behavior of intelligent devices in an ambient computing setting. The scenarios then produce the runtime behavior of the devices, providing an environment for end-users to design, test, and evaluate the interfaces to intelligent devices in an ambient computing setting. The approach is expected to increase the accessibility of environment control to general populations of users by replacing explicit programming with an illustrative interface. A visual programming language for scripting ambient computing activities is also contemplated. Computing resources, often embedded in devices like toasters, desks, doors, walls, etc., give the device a sense of intelligence. People interact with these devices explicitly through direct manipulation or implicitly through their mere proximity to the devices. Because these intelligent devices are pervasive and perhaps even invisible to the user, the complexity of designing and developing the user interface presents a major challenge addressed by this research.Broader Impact: The emerging area of ambient computing, also known as ubiquitous, pervasive, invisible, or calm computing, could become the next wave of computing. The framework, made part of an IDE (Integrated Development Platform), contributes to the development of courses and training of students within a minority serving institution.