CRI: Development of an Ambient Computing Usability Laboratory

该项目研究新的架构和编程模型，用于环境计算设备的多模型人机界面的快速应用开发，旨在建立一个实验室，设计和开发无处不在的智能设备的用户界面。利用开发框架和编程模型，用于集成和配置低级使能技术以产生用户交互的期望行为（例如，交谈），在交互式编程开发环境中用于配置周围（智能）环境的这项工作将必须理解如何使用高级技术的负担从用户转移到编程环境。实验工作的重点是使用故事板，一种视觉媒介，用于定义场景，描述在环境计算环境中的人的行为和智能设备的预期行为。然后，这些场景产生设备的运行时行为，为最终用户提供一个环境，以设计、测试和评估环境计算设置中智能设备的接口。预计这种方法将以说明性界面取代明确的程序设计，从而增加一般用户对环境控制的可及性。还设想了用于脚本化环境计算活动的可视化编程语言。计算资源通常嵌入在烤面包机、桌子、门、墙壁等设备中，给设备一种智能的感觉。人们与这些设备的交互是通过直接操作来显式地进行的，或者是通过与设备的接近来隐式地进行的。由于这些智能设备无处不在，甚至可能对用户是不可见的，因此设计和开发用户界面的复杂性是本研究所面临的一个主要挑战。更广泛的影响：环境计算的新兴领域，也被称为无处不在，无处不在，无形，或平静计算，可能成为下一波计算。该框架是IDE（综合发展平台）的一部分，有助于在少数民族服务机构内制定课程和培训学生。

This project, studying new architectural and programming models for the rapid application development of multi-model human computer interfaces for ambient computing devices, aims at establishing a lab that will design and develop the user interface to ubiquitous intelligent devices. With a developmental framework and programming model for integrating and configuring the low-level enabling technologies to produce a desired behavior for a user to interact (e.g., talk) with a computing device in an environment, this work in interactive programming development environments for configuring ambient (intelligent) environments shifts the burden of having to understand how to use advanced technology from the user to the programming environment. The experimental work focuses on the use of Storyboarding, a visual medium for defining scenarios describing the actions of people and expected behavior of intelligent devices in an ambient computing setting. The scenarios then produce the runtime behavior of the devices, providing an environment for end-users to design, test, and evaluate the interfaces to intelligent devices in an ambient computing setting. The approach is expected to increase the accessibility of environment control to general populations of users by replacing explicit programming with an illustrative interface. A visual programming language for scripting ambient computing activities is also contemplated. Computing resources, often embedded in devices like toasters, desks, doors, walls, etc., give the device a sense of intelligence. People interact with these devices explicitly through direct manipulation or implicitly through their mere proximity to the devices. Because these intelligent devices are pervasive and perhaps even invisible to the user, the complexity of designing and developing the user interface presents a major challenge addressed by this research.Broader Impact: The emerging area of ambient computing, also known as ubiquitous, pervasive, invisible, or calm computing, could become the next wave of computing. The framework, made part of an IDE (Integrated Development Platform), contributes to the development of courses and training of students within a minority serving institution.