EAGER: Mobile Interfaces and Cognitive Disabilities

EAGER：移动界面和认知障碍

• 批准号: 1135149
• 负责人: Clayton Lewis
• 金额: $ 8.09万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1135149&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Mobile; Interfaces; Cognitive; Disabilities

This research, which involves collaboration between scientists from two institutions, will explore the intersection of interface design approaches for mobile users and users with cognitive disabilities, with the goal of identifying ways that best practices in each community can help the other create better interfaces. Initial investigation by the PIs, who possess individual expertise in the two fields, has identified similarities in the interface concerns between the two communities (e.g., the number and size of buttons, the use of icons and graphics to communicate, and the need for multiple paths to information collection). The PIs will create and study interfaces that use and expand the interface design guidelines for both communities, bringing together domain experts to launch a new generation of interfaces that are less cognitively demanding and more widely usable by important user populations. To these ends, the team will employ two types of interventions: a prototype driven development effort and an analytic evaluation effort. The prototype driven development effort will seek to address needs of mobile communities and communities of users with cognitive disabilities through user focused interface design. The analytic evaluation effort will draw upon the opinions of experts in the fields of cognitive disabilities, mobile interfaces, cognitive science, human interruption, and health and wellness, to identify the most promising avenues for research and development. The PIs expect that this work will connect two fields with promise for mutual benefit through continued research and teaching. Broader Impacts: This project connects two fields that are not generally considered to be related, and has the potential to transform key principles for interface design by increasing cross-domain intellectual output between the mobile interfaces and cognitive disabilities communities. This research will result in the creation and distribution of interfaces to members of an under-represented group, and in so doing will draw attention to the issues faced by people with cognitive disabilities and focus efforts to address them by providing avenues toward non-litigious, scientific approaches to deal with all people's needs and desires to communicate on the go with mobile interfaces.. The project will enhance partnerships between researchers at the University of Colorado and Virginia Tech, with benefits extending across the United States and the world through publications and workshops at top venues in the fields of mobile interfaces and cognitive disabilities.

这项研究涉及两个机构的科学家之间的合作，将探索移动的用户和认知障碍用户的界面设计方法的交叉点，目的是确定每个社区的最佳实践可以帮助其他社区创建更好的界面。 在这两个领域拥有个人专门知识的主要研究人员进行的初步调查发现，两个社区之间的界面问题存在相似之处（例如，按钮的数量和大小、使用图标和图形进行通信、以及需要多个信息收集路径）。 PI将创建和研究使用和扩展两个社区的界面设计指南的界面，将领域专家聚集在一起，推出新一代的界面，这些界面对认知的要求较低，并且可以被重要的用户群体更广泛地使用。 为此，团队将采用两种类型的干预措施：原型驱动的开发工作和分析评估工作。 原型驱动的开发工作将寻求通过以用户为中心的界面设计来满足移动的社区和认知障碍用户社区的需求。 分析评估工作将借鉴认知障碍、移动的界面、认知科学、人为干扰以及健康和保健领域专家的意见，以确定最有前途的研发途径。 PI希望这项工作将通过持续的研究和教学将两个领域联系起来，并承诺互利互惠。 更广泛的影响：该项目连接了两个通常被认为不相关的领域，并有可能通过增加移动的界面和认知障碍社区之间的跨领域智力输出来改变界面设计的关键原则。 这项研究将导致创建和分配接口的代表性不足的群体的成员，并在这样做将提请注意认知障碍的人所面临的问题，并集中努力解决这些问题，通过提供途径走向非诉讼，科学的方法来处理所有人的需求和愿望，在旅途中与移动的接口进行通信。 该项目将加强科罗拉多大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学研究人员之间的伙伴关系，通过在移动的界面和认知障碍领域的顶级场所出版物和举办讲习班，使美国和世界各地受益。