RIME: Rich Interactive Materials for Everyday Objects in the Home

RIME：适合家庭日常用品的丰富互动材料

• 批准号: 425869111
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Susanne Boll
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Informatik 10 - Lehrstuhl Medieninformatik
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Priority Programmes
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/425869111?language=en
• 关键词: RIME; Rich; Interactive; Materials; Everyday

The user experience of the smart home is in a crisis. Smart devices and appliances are rapidly entering the home, leading to a confusing mix of individual user interfaces to learn and remember. Consequently, users make mistakes, become frustrated, and often abandon promising solutions. Attempting to unify these interfaces through voice assistants or mid-air gestures creates invisible, hard-to-discover interfaces, awkward social situations, and quickly reaches its limits, such as when controlling a continuous value via voice. The smartphone as “universal remote” does not integrate well with natural social practices in the home and, like all touchscreens, limits our hands to tapping and swiping with 1–2 fingers on a featureless glass surface. This does not do justice to the rich interactions our hands allow.Throughout our evolution, our hands have always been how we interact with the inanimate objects and materials around us, while voice and mid-air gestures have developed specifically to interact with other living beings. This may explain the unease users frequently feel when asked to talk or gesture to objects in their smart home today. Over several million years, our hands have evolved to become capable of expressing a rich vocabulary of grasps and tangible manipulation gestures, and to touch, sense, and intimately experience the rich variety of material and object properties that can inform and delight us. The goal of RIME (Rich Interactive Materials for Everyday Objects in the Home) is to unlock this potential and design, evaluate and assess parametrically scalable, rich touch-based interactions with personal smart spaces at home and beyond.RIME tackles this challenge through a structured research agenda combining the principles of fundamental research with the user-centered approach of modern Human-Computer Interaction. At its core lies the idea to equip everyday objects in the home with interactive surface “skins” and materials that can sense this rich touch input and provide appropriate multimodal feedback. To ground our research, we first elicit current practices that involve touching everyday home objects in lab and field studies, to understand where to place potential RIME components (WP1). Based on these findings, we classify possible interaction techniques and examine ways to make them discoverable, disambiguate everyday handling from digital touch input, map input on a RIME component to its target, and scale to different users and contexts (WP2). We evaluate ways to create local and ambient feedback (WP3), and create the necessary foundations in digital fabrication to create scalable, parametric models of stretchable skins and materials that integrate touch, force, and deformation sensors, shape-changing and other haptic actuators, and visual output (WP4). We iteratively validate our results in studies with stakeholders, and integrate them into conceptual frameworks and model-based guidelines for future design tools (WP5).

智能家居的用户体验正处于危机之中。智能设备和电器正在迅速进入家庭，导致单个用户界面的混乱组合需要学习和记忆。因此，用户会犯错误，变得沮丧，并经常放弃有希望的解决方案。试图通过语音助手或空中手势来统一这些界面，会产生不可见的、难以发现的界面、尴尬的社交场景，并很快达到其极限，例如通过语音控制连续值。作为“通用遥控器”的智能手机无法与家庭中的自然社交实践很好地结合，并且与所有触摸屏一样，限制我们的手只能用1-2个手指在无特征的玻璃表面上敲击和滑动。这并不公平地对待我们的手所允许的丰富互动。在我们的进化过程中，我们的手一直是我们与周围无生命物体和材料互动的方式，而声音和空中手势则是专门为了与其他生物互动而发展起来的。这可能解释了用户在被要求与智能家居中的物体交谈或打手势时经常感到不安的原因。几百万年来，我们的手已经进化到能够表达丰富的抓握词汇和有形的操作手势，并触摸，感觉和亲密地体验丰富多样的材料和物体属性，这些属性可以让我们获得信息和愉悦。RIME（Rich Interactive Materials for Everyday Objects in the Home）的目标是释放这一潜力，并设计、评估和评估可参数化扩展的、丰富的触摸式交互与家庭内外的个人智能空间。RIME通过结构化的研究议程将基础研究的原则与以用户为中心的现代人机交互方法相结合来应对这一挑战。其核心理念是为家中的日常物品配备交互式表面“皮肤”和材料，这些材料可以感知这种丰富的触摸输入并提供适当的多模式反馈。为了使我们的研究接地，我们首先引出当前的实践，包括在实验室和现场研究中触摸日常家居物品，以了解在哪里放置潜在的RIME组件（WP 1）。基于这些研究结果，我们对可能的交互技术进行分类，并研究如何使它们易于理解，从数字触摸输入中消除日常处理的歧义，将RIME组件上的输入映射到其目标，并扩展到不同的用户和上下文（WP 2）。我们评估了创建局部和环境反馈（WP 3）的方法，并在数字制造中创建必要的基础，以创建可伸缩皮肤和材料的可扩展参数模型，这些模型集成了触摸，力和变形传感器，形状改变和其他触觉执行器以及视觉输出（WP 4）。我们反复验证我们与利益相关者的研究结果，并将其整合到概念框架和基于模型的指导方针，以供未来的设计工具（WP 5）使用。