"Developing and Analysing Adaptive, Enjoyable and Engaging Human-Computer Interfaces"

“开发和分析自适应、令人愉悦且引人入胜的人机界面”

• 批准号: 418622-2012
• 负责人: Nacke, Lennart
• 金额: $ 1.6万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=573751
• 关键词: Developing; Analysing; Adaptive; Enjoyable; Engaging

The goal of my research is to investigate how to develop adaptive, enjoyable, and engaging human interfaces that result in a pleasant user experience (UX). This is divided into two distinct research strands: First, I plan to explore human interfaces that augment traditional input techniques with sensor technologies taking into account internal and external user information. Second, I plan to identify motivating and engaging game design principles to make tedious maintenance tasks more engaging. While traditional input technologies allow comfortable direct manipulation of software, they are limited in accounting for the internal and external circumstances that a user may be in. Therefore, my goal is to augment input control with sensors, which can gather information about how a user feels internally (e.g., physiology and eye trackers) and what contextual affordances and limitations they have in their physical environment (e.g., location tracking to infer activity), to create a richer experience. This research will contribute tools and techniques for evaluating interaction techniques and adapting software systems with sensor information. In my second strand, I will focus on making software or hardware maintenance tasks more enjoyable using game design techniques. This is important because many software and hardware systems require tedious manual maintenance and calibration tasks, which are important for a system's security and proper functioning. Since some of these manual tasks cannot be automated I am looking for ways to make them more engaging. Major outcomes of this research will include novel augmented interaction tools and techniques based on results from scientific experiments as well as new and engaging design principles for maintenance tasks leveraging game design methodology. I expect up to nine students, including Undergraduate, Master's, and Ph.D. level, to receive training through participation in my research program.

我的研究目标是研究如何开发自适应的，愉快的，引人入胜的人机界面，从而带来愉快的用户体验（UX）。这分为两个不同的研究方向：首先，我计划探索人机界面，利用传感器技术增强传统的输入技术，同时考虑内部和外部用户信息。其次，我计划确定激励和吸引人的游戏设计原则，使繁琐的维护任务更吸引人。 虽然传统的输入技术允许舒适的直接操作软件，但它们在考虑用户可能处于的内部和外部环境方面受到限制。因此，我的目标是用传感器来增强输入控制，传感器可以收集用户内部感觉的信息（例如，生理学和眼睛跟踪器）以及它们在其物理环境中具有什么上下文可供性和限制（例如，位置跟踪以推断活动），以创建更丰富的体验。这项研究将有助于评估交互技术和适应软件系统与传感器信息的工具和技术。 在我的第二条线中，我将专注于使用游戏设计技术使软件或硬件维护任务更有趣。这一点很重要，因为许多软件和硬件系统需要繁琐的手动维护和校准任务，这对系统的安全性和正常运行很重要。由于这些手动任务中的一些无法自动化，我正在寻找使它们更具吸引力的方法。 这项研究的主要成果将包括基于科学实验结果的新型增强交互工具和技术，以及利用游戏设计方法进行维护任务的新的引人入胜的设计原则。我希望最多九名学生，包括本科生，硕士生和博士生。水平，通过参与我的研究计划接受培训。