EAGER: Intelligent Interfaces for Managing User Experience in Hypermedia-Enabled Virtual Workspaces

EAGER：用于管理支持超媒体的虚拟工作空间中的用户体验的智能界面

• 批准号: 0947483
• 负责人: Julian Lombardi
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0947483&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Intelligent; Interfaces; Managing; User

This project will combine design principles and technology advancements to enable the deployment and evaluation of new interface paradigms for managing continuities between hyperlinked 3D virtual workspaces and for managing user orientation with respect to 2D and 3D information resources within virtual workspaces. Having built the open source 3D collaboration system (Open Cobalt) as a means of enabling the deployment of hyperlinked virtual workspaces, the research group will leverage the modularity and flexibility of Open Cobalt's graphical user interface (GUI) framework to explore optimal user interface approaches for: (1) defining optimal affordances for virtual workspace authors and end-users to manage the configuration and functionality of 3D portals (links) within hypermedia-enabled virtual workspaces, and (2) managing the perceptual relationships among 2D and 3D components displayed within virtual workspaces, which include multiple interacting avatars and aggregated 2D and 3D content. The research will assess the effectiveness of multiple GUI approaches in each of these areas in the context of two exemplar implementations involving scientific collaboration and education. This work will provide key insights into optimal GUI approaches for managing content and connectivity within virtual workspaces. It will also: (1) further advance usability within a software infrastructure designed to support the cost-effective, large-scale deployment of interconnected and deeply capable virtual workspaces, (2) advance a common and extensible software framework supporting synchronized communication and collaboration among large numbers of people across distributed and hyperlinked virtual workspace contexts, and (3) provide open source software products that can serve as the basis for future research experimentation. This project has great potential in advancing an effective 3D GUI for managing virtual place and space so that people are better able to manage access to social and informational resources within hyperlinked virtual workspaces. This will have direct impact on the efficacy of using virtual workspaces in support of education, research, business, social interaction, and entertainment. The resulting functionality of Open Cobalt will; (1) provide a highly capable open source platform in support of further research on virtual worlds; (2) further advance a powerful medium for enabling scientific outreach and education; and (3) serve as a powerful 'force multiplier' that by supporting an interlinked network of multi-user virtual world spaces, can leverage individual and recombined intellectual communities across the nation and beyond.

该项目将结合联合收割机的设计原则和技术进步，使新的界面范例的部署和评估管理超链接的三维虚拟图书馆之间的连续性和管理用户的方向相对于二维和三维信息资源的虚拟图书馆。构建了开源的3D协作系统（Open Cobalt）作为部署超链接虚拟网络的一种手段，研究小组将利用Open Cobalt图形用户界面（GUI）框架的模块化和灵活性，探索最佳用户界面方法：（1）为虚拟工作空间作者和最终用户定义最佳的启示，以管理超媒体内的3D门户（链接）的配置和功能;使能的虚拟化身，以及（2）管理在虚拟化身内显示的2D和3D组件之间的感知关系，所述组件包括多个交互化身以及聚合的2D和3D内容。该研究将评估多个GUI方法在这些领域中的每一个涉及科学合作和教育的两个范例实现的背景下的有效性。这项工作将提供关键的见解，以最佳的GUI方法，管理内容和连接的虚拟机。它还将：（1）进一步推进软件基础设施内的可用性，该软件基础设施被设计成支持互连的且能力强大的虚拟工作空间的成本有效的大规模部署，（2）推进公共的且可扩展的软件框架，该软件框架支持跨分布式和超链接的虚拟工作空间上下文的大量人之间的同步通信和协作，以及（3）提供开源软件产品，作为未来研究实验的基础。该项目在推进有效的3D GUI管理虚拟场所和空间方面具有巨大的潜力，以便人们能够更好地管理超链接虚拟空间中的社交和信息资源的访问。这将直接影响到使用虚拟现实支持教育、研究、商业、社交和娱乐的效率。Open Cobalt的最终功能将：（1）提供一个功能强大的开源平台，以支持对虚拟世界的进一步研究;（2）进一步推进一个强大的媒介，以实现科学宣传和教育;以及（3）作为强大的“力量倍增器”，通过支持多用户虚拟世界空间的互连网络，可以利用全国各地和其他地区的个人和重组的知识社区。