Motor and Sensory Optimization of Mobile User Interfaces

该研究计划将为移动的设备（如平板电脑和智能手机）创建新的，高效的和挑衅性的用户界面（UI）。 短期目标是开发新的界面，并与用户一起进行评估。长期目标是将最具煽动性和最合适的UI推进到产品中，用户社区将接受并接受这些产品，作为他们移动的设备的新颖、有用和吸引人的交互。 “用户接口”被广义地解释为用户和设备之间的交互点，在这种情况下，设备是人类用于执行任务或实现目标的移动终端。该研究的“运动”和“感知”方面涉及人类与移动的计算技术交互时参与的人类输出（运动）和输入（感知）通道。“优化”是指使用实证研究方法来测试替代接口。设计和交互选项的构思，实施，测试，并在用户研究中进行比较，与更好的性能选项进行进一步优化和测试，并放弃性能较差的选项。 人类方面将研究手，手臂，手指的使用，甚至头部和眼睛的运动。（语音输入计算机不属于本研究计划的一部分。对于用户用手和手指与移动的计算设备交互的方式，有大量正在进行的研究，并且这种研究将继续下去。PI将研究基于触摸的设备，如智能手机和平板电脑，支持各种触摸手势（例如，轻弹）和多点触摸交互（例如，用于缩放、和弦）。听觉和触觉反馈将作为优化交互和减少视觉负荷的手段进行研究。后者对于移动的设备是重要的，因为它们通常用于其中主要任务（例如，走路需要用眼睛。 现代移动的设备通常包括各种传感器，例如加速度计、陀螺仪、磁场传感器、接近传感器、光、温度和压力传感器等。将研究在用户体验中参与和优化来自这些传感器的信息的机会。此外，摄像头（有时两个！）通常嵌入在当代的移动的设备中。该研究将研究在交互场景中使用眼睛或头部位置信息（通过摄像头获得）。游戏是此类数据的应用程序域的典型示例。这项研究将包括游戏以及其他应用所需的广泛的交互技术。

This research program will create new, efficient, and provocative user interfaces (UIs) for mobile devices, such as tablets and smart phones. The short term goal is to develop new interfaces and evaluate them with users. The long term goal is to move the most provocative and opportune UIs forward into products that the user community will take up and embrace as novel, useful, and engaging interactions for their mobile devices. "User interfaces" is broadly interpreted as the points of interaction between a user and a device in this case, a mobile device used by a human for doing a task or achieving a goal. The "motor" and "perceptual" aspects of the research pertain to the human output (motor) and input (perceptual) channels that are engaged as humans interact with mobile computing technology. "Optimization" is a reference to the use of empirical research methods to test alternative interfaces. Design and interaction options are conceived, implemented, tested, and compared in user studies, with better performing options advancing for further optimizing and testing, and poorer performing options discarded. The human side will research the use of hands, arms, fingers, and even the movement of head and eyes. (Speech input to computers is not part of this program of research.) There is considerable on-going research in the way users interact with mobile computing devices with their hands and fingers, and this will continue. The PI will research touch-based devices, such as smart phones and tablets, that support a variety of touch gestures (e.g., flicks) and multi-touch interaction (e.g., for zooming, chording). Auditory and tactile feedback will be researched as a means to optimize interaction and to reduce the visual load. The latter is important for mobile devices since they are typically used in dual-task settings where the primary task (e.g., walking) requires the use of the eyes. Modern mobile devices typically include a variety of sensors, such as accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetic field sensors, proximity sensors, light, temperature, and pressure sensors, and so on. Opportunities to engage and optimize information from these sensors in the user experience will be researched. Furthermore, cameras (sometimes two!) are typically embedded in contemporary mobile devices. The research will study the use of eye- or head-position information (obtained via the camera) in interaction scenarios. Gaming is a typically example of an application domain for such data. The research will include gaming as well as the broad spectrum of interaction techniques required for other applications.