Fostering Peripheral Information Awareness through Personalized, Expressive Art

通过个性化表达艺术培养周边信息意识这是一个标准奖项。 在当今信息丰富的社会中，人们忙碌并深深地投入到工作或其他活动中，通常无法保持对外围但有用的信息的意识，例如天气，交通和财经新闻。 在这个项目中，PI将探索信息艺术的概念，通过个性化的，表达性的艺术促进周边信息的意识的过程。这种新形式的信息访问和呈现系统结合了环境显示和信息可视化的元素。 信息艺术允许人们识别感兴趣的信息，然后设计一个定制的，美观的信息表示。 该项目的主要目标是探索平静地交流信息的技术，而不会打断一个人的注意力，也不会从他/她的桌面显示器上占用空间。 随着人们获得越来越多的信息，至关重要的是开发技术和工具，帮助他们管理和利用这些信息。 然而，许多计算机技术似乎只是通过提供更多（通常是不需要的）信息来加剧这种情况。 该项目将创建技术和工具，使人们能够选择他们感兴趣的信息，并以个人有意义和令人愉快的方式表示和传达这些信息。 该项目更广泛的影响将是探索新的、无处不在的信息显示空间，并了解它们在未来工作和家庭环境中的位置。

Fostering Peripheral Information Awareness through Personalized Expressive ArtThis is a standard award. In today's information-rich society, people who are busy and deeply engaged in work or other activities often are unable to maintain awareness of peripheral, but useful, information such as weather, traffic, and financial news. In this project the PI will explore the concept of Information Art, the process of promoting awareness of peripheral information through personalized, expressive art. This new form of information access and presentation system combines elements of both ambient displays and information visualizations. Information Art allows people to identify information of interest and then to design a customized, aesthetically-pleasing representation of that information. The primary goal of the project is to explore techniques for calmly communicating information without interrupting a person's concentration and without robbing space from his/her desktop displays. As people gain access to more and more information, it is crucial to develop techniques and tools that aid them in managing and utilizing that information. Many computer technologies only seem to exacerbate the situation, however, by contributing more (often unwanted) information. This project will create techniques and tools that will empower people to choose information of interest to them, and to represent and communicate this information in a manner that is personally meaningful and pleasing. An even broader impact of the project will be to explore the space of new, pervasive information displays and understand their place in future work and home environments.