Enabling a Symphony of Devices

启用设备交响乐

• 批准号: RGPIN-2016-06544
• 负责人: Wigdor, Daniel
• 金额: $ 3.35万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2016-01-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=616378
• 关键词: Enabling; Symphony; Devices

Imagine you are a motivational speaker roaming a stage, a politician standing at a podium, a professor tethered to a laptop, or a member of small group meeting. Foreseeing and designing an application to tailor itself to all of these uses, and thousands of others, is daunting. You could speak with only a projector; both you and your audience would only see your slides. But what if you connected a phone, and it displayed a list of slides, a timer, and your speaker notes. If you added a smart watch, the display on your wrist could show you not only the current time, but also the timer and the progression of your talk. Putting on a head-mounted display, such as Google Glass would move your speaker notes, providing a private teleprompter. What if you would like your hands free? Put the phone away and the display of available slides resizes itself and appears on your Glass. You could advance the slides by pressing a button on the watch, by speaking a command, or by tapping the side of your Glass. Each of these configurations is appropriate for a different type of talk. My work focuses on how the user can tailor an application’s behavior simply by adding the right devices, and enabling the software to reshape and optimize its user experience to the new topology. Critical to achieving this future is meeting the challenge to enable software to grow and shrink to take advantage of all available hardware, without the need for developers to foresee all hardware combinations in advance. Research in ubiquitous computing thus far has focused on enabling transitions between devices, such reading a webpage or book on one device, and then moving it to another to pick-up at the same point. This just begins to scratch the surface of what is possible. We are developing universal interaction methods to maximize the utility of multiple devices. Further, we are building tools to allow developers to define their applications in a way that enables portions of the UI to be automatically and intelligently allocated to any attached device capable of displaying UI, based on the match between software needs and hardware capabilities. Our work in this area is now expanding to enable the annexation of nearby headless computing devices, such as mobile sensors, building tools to give developers increasing levels of control.

想象你是一个 励志演说家在舞台上漫步，政治家站在讲台上， 系在笔记本电脑上的教授，或者小组会议的成员。预见 设计一个应用程序来适应所有这些用途， 成千上万的人，令人生畏你可以只用一个投影仪说话， 你和你的观众只会看到你的幻灯片但是如果你把一个 手机，它显示了一个幻灯片列表，一个计时器，和你的演讲者笔记。如果 你添加了一个智能手表，你手腕上的显示屏不仅可以显示你的 当前时间，还有计时器和你的演讲进度。上演一 头戴式显示器，如谷歌眼镜将移动您的扬声器笔记， 提供私人电报机如果你想让你的手自由？放 手机离开，可用幻灯片的显示会自动调整大小， 在你的玻璃上。你可以通过按下手表上的一个按钮来推进幻灯片， 通过说出一个命令，或者通过敲击你的眼镜的侧面。这一切成功都 配置适合于不同类型的谈话。我的工作重点是 用户如何通过添加权限来定制应用程序的行为 设备，并使软件能够重塑和优化其用户体验 到新的拓扑结构。 的关键 实现这一未来就是迎接挑战，使软件能够增长， 缩小以利用所有可用硬件，而无需 开发人员可以提前预见所有硬件组合。研究 到目前为止，普适计算的重点是实现 设备，例如在一个设备上阅读网页或书籍，然后将其移动到 另一个在同一地点接人这只是开始触及表面 什么是可能的。 我们正在开发通用的交互方法，以最大限度地利用 多个设备。此外，我们正在构建工具以允许开发人员定义 他们的应用程序的方式，使部分用户界面自动 并且智能地分配给能够显示UI的任何附接设备， 基于软件需求和硬件能力之间的匹配。我们的工作 在这一地区正在扩大，使附近的无头 计算设备，例如移动的传感器，构建工具， 提高控制水平。