RUI: IIS: HCC: Small Projects: Enhancing Genomic Exploration through Reality-Based Interaction

RUI：IIS：HCC：小型项目：通过基于现实的交互加强基因组探索

• 批准号: 1017693
• 负责人: Orit Shaer
• 金额: $ 26.87万
• 依托单位: Wellesley College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1017693&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RUI; IIS; HCC; Small; Projects

Over the past two decades, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research has generated a broad range of interaction styles that move beyond the desktop into new physical and social contexts. Key areas of innovation in this respect are tabletop, tangible, and embodied user interfaces. These interaction styles leverage users' existing knowledge and skills of interaction with the real non-digital world, thus we refer to them as reality-based interfaces (RBI). RBIs offer a natural, intuitive, and often collaborative form of interaction that reduces the mental effort required to learn and operate a computational system. While these advances in HCI have been successfully applied to a broad range of application domains, little research has been devoted to investigating reality-based interaction in the context of scientific discovery. However, it is particularly important to study reality-based interaction in this context where reducing users' mental workload and supporting collaborative work could lead to new scientific discoveries. The goals of this research are to design, develop, and evaluate the benefits of a tabletop reality-based interface for collaborative exploration of heterogeneous genomic information. The investigation will focus on how tabletop reality-based interaction can support collaborative research and facilitate new discoveries. Specifically, the investigator will address two questions: What is the key computational functionality required to enable an effective use of a tabletop reality-based interface for genomic research? And, can reality-based interface improve users? work flow and facilitate the development of new biological insights?This research program addresses a number of broader impacts. First, successful results of this project will foster collaboration and improve work flow in genomic research, thus, may lead to new scientific discoveries. This investigation will contribute a design, implementation and validation of a tabletop reality-based interface that supports collaborative genomic research, and a set of design requirements for supporting collaborative scientific discovery in areas where vast amounts of heterogeneous information is explored. Second, this project will train undergraduate female researchers, making them an integral part of the research team. Finally, the project will have a significant impact on three computing and science courses in a women?s college.

在过去的二十年中，人机交互（HCI）研究已经产生了广泛的交互风格，这些交互风格超越了桌面，进入了新的物理和社会环境。这方面的关键创新领域是桌面、有形和具体化的用户界面。这些交互风格利用了用户与真实非数字世界交互的现有知识和技能，因此我们将它们称为基于现实的界面（RBI）。rbi提供了一种自然的、直观的、通常是协作的交互形式，减少了学习和操作计算系统所需的脑力劳动。虽然HCI的这些进步已经成功地应用于广泛的应用领域，但在科学发现的背景下，很少有研究致力于调查基于现实的交互。然而，在这种情况下，研究基于现实的交互尤为重要，因为减少用户的心理工作量和支持协作工作可能会带来新的科学发现。本研究的目标是设计、开发和评估基于桌面现实的界面的好处，用于协同探索异质基因组信息。调查将集中在桌面基于现实的互动如何支持合作研究和促进新发现。具体来说，研究者将解决两个问题：为了有效地使用基于桌面现实的基因组研究界面，需要的关键计算功能是什么？基于现实的界面能改善用户吗？工作流程和促进新的生物学见解的发展？这个研究项目涉及一些更广泛的影响。首先，该项目的成功成果将促进基因组研究的合作和改善工作流程，从而可能导致新的科学发现。这项研究将有助于设计、实现和验证桌面基于现实的界面，支持协同基因组研究，并提供一组设计要求，以支持在探索大量异质信息的领域进行协同科学发现。二是培养本科女性科研人员，使其成为科研团队的重要组成部分。最后，该项目将对一所女子大学的三门计算机和科学课程产生重大影响。年代上大学。