SBIR Phase I: Siftables - Distributed, Gestural Human Computer Interaction

这个小企业创新研究第一阶段的项目旨在加速人性化、高效和直观的用户界面（UI）的建设——一个小型、无线、手势敏感的显示系统，作为一个界面协同工作。人们可以通过对一组物理对象的空间操作来有效地执行认知任务。最近投放市场的新型基于手势的用户界面表明，市场和技术条件适合开发多对象界面——将（日益智能的）物理对象世界优雅地连接到网络数字信息的系统。如果成功，该方法将提供一个可以处理广泛的人机任务的UI，从媒体创作到数据分析再到社会交流。在短期内，一个新的互动娱乐系统，建立在现有的，成功的游戏应用程序集将部署。从历史上看，娱乐领域为引入新颖的UI系统提供了一个有利可图的舞台。这个市场很大，价格很灵活，而且它的消费者对新奇的互动有着明显的渴望。该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project aims to accelerate construction of humane, efficient and intuitive user interface (UI) - a system of small, wireless, gesture-sensitive displays that act in concert as one interface. People can efficiently execute cognitive tasks through spatial manipulation of groups of physical objects. New gesture-based UIs recently launched into the market indicate that market and technology conditions are right to develop multi-object interfaces - systems that elegantly connect the (increasingly smart) world of physical objects to networked digital information. If successful, the approach will provide a UI that can address a broad range of human-computer tasks, from media creation to data analysis to social communication. In the immediate term, a novel interactive entertainment system, building on existing, successful set of game applications will be deployed. Historically, the entertainment domain has provided a profitable staging area in which to introduce novel UI systems. This market is large, has price flexibility, and its consumers have a demonstrated desire for novel interactions.This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).