CRCD: Innovative Approaches to Computer-Human Interfaces

0203333Scarlatos，LoriCUNY Brooklyn College“计算机-人机界面的创新方法”这个项目涉及两所大学，致力于将人机界面(HCI)研究转移到本科和研究生课程中。PI和Co-PI探索人机界面的替代方法，包括沉浸式界面、虚拟现实和无处不在的计算，以及替代输入模式，如语音、手势和眼球跟踪。他们还试验了将环境中的对象用作输入设备(有形接口)，并为这些对象提供关于它们相对于其他对象的位置的智能(智能对象)。这项建议描述了一种方法，通过整合PI和其他人的研究的课程改革来满足扩大人机界面从业者队伍的需要。该项目涉及为计算机科学和数学/科学教育专业的学生开发一系列课程，教他们如何1)利用新的接口技术，2)在多学科团队中应用这些技能，以及3)在公共环境中评估他们产生的项目。计算机科学和数学/科学教育的学生合作开发旨在让K-12学生对数学和科学感兴趣的教育工具。新课程在布鲁克林学院(CUNY)和石溪大学(SUNY)这两所公立大学教授，学生和来自郊区和市中心的未来/现在的教师都能接触到这些课程。此外，国际和平协会计划在石溪卓越学习和教学中心举办两个教师讲习班，并在两个博物馆安装项目：纽约科学馆和古德罗艺术与科学数学博物馆。这种研究性课程开发的联合努力预计将产生几个好处。(1)这项工作可能会影响到广泛的人群，包括在大学教室、公共博物馆和公立学校中数学和科学方面代表性不足的群体中的大量学生，(2)这项多学科计划将促进和支持计算机科学学生和数学/科学教育学生(通常是实习教师)之间的合作。这些本科生将了解人机界面领域的最新研究进展，以及如何利用这些界面来加强教育，在合作努力中将这些技术应用于教育应用程序，并参与在真实世界环境中评估其应用程序的研究，(3)安装在卓越学习与教学中心、纽约科学大厅和古德罗艺术与科学数学博物馆的学生项目将为包括学生和教育工作者在内的更广泛的受众提供学习机会和灵感，(4)在卓越学习与教学中心举办的两个研讨会，将有助于在教育工作者群体中进一步传播这一项目的成果(5)一种新的教科书，加上网上提供的补充材料，将使其他人能够在其机构教授这些课程。然后，利用创新的计算机界面的教育应用程序可能会成为更多教育工作者和学生的工具。

0203333Scarlatos, LoriCUNY Brooklyn College"Innovative Approaches to Computer-Human Interfaces"This project, involving two universities, addresses the transfer of Human Computer Interfaces (HCI) research into undergraduate and graduate curricula. The PI and Co-PIs explore alternative approaches to HCI including immersive interfaces, virtual reality and ubiquitous computing as well as alternative input modes, such as voice, gesture, and eye tracking. They have also experimented with using objects in the environment as input devices (tangible interfaces) and giving those objects intelligence about where they are in relation to others (smart objects). This proposal describes a way to address the need to expand the pool of HCI practitioners through curricular changes integrating the PI's and others' research. This project involves the development of a sequence of courses for both computer science and math/science education students that teach them how to 1) utilize new interface technologies, 2) apply those skills in multidisciplinary teams, and 3) evaluate their resulting projects in public settings. The computer science and math/science education students collaborate to develop educational tools designed to get K-12 students interested in math and science. The new courses are taught at two public universities, Brooklyn College (CUNY) and Stony Brook University (SUNY), where they reach students and future/current teachers from both the suburbs and the inner city. In addition, the PI plan two teacher workshops at Stony Brook's Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, and the installation of the projects in two museums: the New York Hall of Science, and the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science. This combined research curriculum development effort is expected to yield several benefits. (1) The work may impact a broad range of people, including a large number of students in groups that are underrepresented in math and science in college classrooms, public museums, and public schools, (2) This multidisciplinary program will facilitate and support collaboration between computer science students and math/science education students (who are generally practicing teachers). These undergraduate students will learn about state-of-the-art research advances in the area of computer-human interfaces, and how those interfaces can be used to enhance education, apply these technologies to educational applications in a collaborative effort, and participate in research evaluating their applications in real-world settings, (3) Student projects, installed at the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, the New York Hall of Science, and the Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science, will provide learning opportunities and inspiration to a wider audience including both students and educators, (4) Two workshops, held at the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, will help to further disseminate the findings of this project among the community of educators (5) A new textbook, with supplementary materials available online, will enable others to teach these courses at their institutions. Educational applications utilizing innovative computer interfaces may then become the tools of an even greater pool of educators and students.