SBIR Phase I: Overcoming interaction barriers in augmented reality via wearable multimodal sensing

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力使人们能够直观地与增强现实技术互动。目前，增强现实输入模式可能非常不可靠，使得在这些设备上使用传统的鼠标和键盘应用程序几乎是不可能的。该公司提出了一种设备，可以克服这种交互障碍，使增强现实制造商能够制作更复杂、更有意义的应用程序。该设备将把人的手变成光标，把任何表面变成触摸屏，并开启新的人机交互。将该设备与增强现实耳机结合使用，有望在教育、医疗、国防和制造业等领域获得潜在应用。该公司正在构建一个增强现实输入界面，为增加增强现实内容的差异化路径铺平道路。这项技术可以实现信息的快速交流，速度介于在电脑上打字和说话之间，为增强现实平台的用户释放未开发的生产力。这些成果将通过开发一种可靠的、功能性的腕戴式近红外传感器网络来实现，该网络将改善输入数据的捕获。与目前的设备不同，这项技术不会受到相机有限的视野或障碍物的阻碍，也不会受到其他可穿戴输入捕捉设备的不可靠性的阻碍。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project enables people to intuitively interact with augmented reality technologies. Currently, augmented reality input modalities can be extremely unreliable, making it nearly impossible to use traditional mouse-and-keyboard applications on these devices. The company is proposing a device that may overcome this interaction barrier by allowing augmented reality manufacturers the ability to make more complex and meaningful applications. The device will turn human hands into cursors, turn any surface into a touchscreen, and unlock new human-computer interactions. Using this device with augmented reality headsets is expected to prove advantageous for potential applications in education, medicine, defense, and manufacturing. The company is building an interface for augmented reality input, paving the way for a differentiated path to increasing augmented reality content. This technology could allow for rapid communication of information at a rate falling between that of typing on a computer and physically speaking, unlocking untapped productivity for users of augmented reality platforms. These outcomes will be met through the development of a reliable and functional wrist-worn, near-infrared sensor network that will improve the capture of input data. Unlike current devices, this technology is not hindered by the cameras' limited field of view or obstructions, or by the unreliability of other wearable input capture devices.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.