CAREER: An Agent-Based Approach to Human-Computer Interaction for Systems of Collocated Devices

本研究将研究如何使几个配置的设备可以作为一个系统一起工作，并利用配置的独特特性。具体而言，该研究旨在探索和评估使用体现移动的代理（EMAs）-动画代理，可以在不同的设备之间无缝传输-作为一个潜在的解决方案，多设备交互的问题。 在许多社会中，个人使用多种联网计算设备--工作站、笔记本电脑、移动的电话、PDA--的趋势从根本上改变了人们使用这些设备的方式。然而，我们缺乏交互范例来支持跨这些技术的一致体验，并使它们能够作为并置设备系统工作。因此，这项研究将开发技术和international解决方案，促进学习，参与，可访问性和协作跨异构网络的并置计算设备。这项工作将整合和建立在以前的研究领域，包括自主代理，人机交互，计算机图形学，移动的计算，计算机支持的学习，和其他领域。 通过扩展这些领域，该研究将推进了解人们如何同时使用多个设备的最新技术。通过开发并置设备系统的理论和实践基础，这项研究为许多新的多设备交互奠定了基础。通过严格评估具体的实施，这项研究将有助于铺平道路，更大规模地采用并置设备systems.This研究工作是紧密结合在一起的两个教育计划：一系列非正式的科学教育博物馆展览的基础上并置设备的系统，并在加州大学欧文分校的跨学科教育工作。博物馆的展品是与全国各地的生态学家、教育工作者和科学中心合作设计的，旨在帮助8-12岁的儿童了解恢复生态学。在大学的教育工作涉及从几个部门的学生参与合作研究项目和几个新课程的设计。 计算机科学和应用领域的整合将有助于使研究更符合女学生的兴趣。本研究所启用的配置设备系统可以应用于许多领域，包括协作工作环境，教育展览和新的娱乐媒体。 通过开展创新研究，通过开发公开的互动教育工具，并通过在大学内部和外部社区建立伙伴关系，该项目将为社会带来重大利益。

This research will study ways in which several collocated devices may be enabled to work together as a system and take advantage of the unique characteristics of collocation. Specifically, the research seeks to explore and evaluate the use of embodied mobile agents (EMAs) -- animated agents that can transfer seamlessly among different devices -- as one potential solution to the problem of multi-device interaction. The move in many societies toward individuals using multiple networked computational devices -- workstations, notebooks computers, mobile phones, PDAs -- radically changes the ways in which people engage those devices. However, we lack interaction paradigms that support a coherent experience across these technologies and enable them to work as systems of collocated devices. Therefore, this research will develop technological and interactional solutions that promote learning, engagement, accessibility and collaboration across heterogeneous networks of collocated computational devices.This work will integrate and build on previous research in a variety of research fields including autonomous agents, human computer interaction, computer graphics, mobile computing, computer supported learning, and other areas. By expanding on these domains, the research will advance the state of the art in understanding how people can work simultaneously with multiple devices. By developing theoretical and practical foundations for collocated device systems, this research lays the groundwork for many new kinds of multi-device interactions. And by rigorously evaluating specific implementations, the research will help pave the way for wider-scale adoption of collocated device systems.This research effort is closely coupled with two educational programs: a series of informal science education museum exhibits based on a system of collocated devices, and an interdisciplinary educational effort at the University of California, Irvine. The museum exhibits are being designed in collaboration with ecologists, educators and science centers around the country to help 8-12 year old children learn about restoration ecology. The educational work at the university involves the engagement of students from several departments in collaborative research projects and the design of several new courses. The integration of computer science and applied fields will help make the research more relevant to the interests of female students.Systems of collocated devices enabled by this research could be applied to numerous areas including collaborative work settings, educational exhibits, and new entertainment media. By producing innovative research, by developing a publicly available interactive educational tool, and by building partnerships both within the university and to the external community, this project will provide significant benefits to society.