Augmenting the Periphery with Large-Scale Visual Displays

本研究的目的是探讨和评估视觉周边显示器添加到人机界面。 透过一系列的实验室实验，结合可用性评估和系统原型的实地试验，PI将深入探索如何在办公室环境中有效地使用外围信息。 PI和她的团队将设计和构建一个界面，该界面使用投影视觉显示来扩展用户的虚拟工作空间，使其超越桌面显示器的限制，然后使用它来增强办公环境，以支持当前的工作实践。强调支持当前的工作实践，其结果包括台式计算机，这与未来世界的愿景形成鲜明对比，在未来世界中，台式计算机被过多的计算设备（无处不在的计算）或单个个人头戴式显示器所取代，该显示器将信息叠加在佩戴者的世界视图上（可穿戴增强现实）。 PI认为，她的方法，加上一套精心设计的实验室实验，将导致在现实环境中部署外围显示器所涉及的问题的深刻理解。 预计这项研究将产生几项重要成果。 它将导致技术，用于确定和建模用户的工作环境，特别是排名和聚类的文件在这些上下文中，这些将使用户能够轻松地切换任务之间，快速恢复以前的努力，并保持在过去使用的文件的意识。 这项研究也将导致视觉呈现外围信息的技术，也许是视觉蒙太奇，旨在通过传达一条信息的突出部分，包括其周围的环境，同时保持不引人注目的边缘感知机制的优势。 最后，研究将提供洞察到一个3D外围空间的设计，增加了传统的桌面终端的使用，重点是这个空间的划分成逻辑组的基础上的相关性和熟悉的材料，和动态行为的空间材料变得或多或少相关的当前任务。

The goal of this research is to explore and evaluate the addition of visual peripheral displays to human-computer interfaces. Through a series of laboratory experiments, in conjunction with usability evaluations and field trials of system prototypes, the PI will conduct an in-depth exploration of how peripheral information can be used effectively in an office setting. The PI and her team will design and build an interface that uses projected visual displays to extend the user's virtual workspace past the confines of his/her desktop monitor, and then use it to augment an office environment in a way that supports current working practices. The emphasis on supporting current work practice, with its resulting inclusion of desktop computers, is in sharp contrast to visions of tomorrow's world where the desktop computer is replaced by either a plethora of computing devices (ubiquitous computing) or a single personal head-worn display that superimposes information over the wearer's view of the world (wearable augmented reality). The PI posits that her approach, coupled with a set of carefully designed laboratory experiments, will lead to a deep understanding of the issues involved in deploying peripheral displays in realistic environments. This research is expected to have several important outcomes. It will lead to techniques for determining and modeling a user's working contexts, especially the ranking and clustering of documents within those contexts; these will enable the user to easily shift between tasks, quickly regaining the last state of previous efforts and maintaining an awareness of documents used in the past. This research will also lead to techniques for visually presenting peripheral information, perhaps as visual montages designed to take advantage of peripheral perception mechanisms by conveying the salient portions of a piece of information, including its surrounding context, while remaining unobtrusive. Finally, the research will provide insight into the design of a 3D peripheral space that augments the use of traditional desktop terminals, with emphasis on the division of this space into logical groups based on the relevance and familiarity of the material, and the dynamic behavior of the space as material becomes more or less relevant to the current task.