EAGER: Mobile Interfaces and Cognitive Disabilities

这项研究涉及两个机构的科学家之间的合作，将探索移动用户和认知障碍用户界面设计方法的交集，目的是确定每个社区的最佳实践如何帮助对方创建更好的界面。由在这两个领域拥有个人专门知识的私人投资机构进行的初步调查发现，两个社区之间的界面问题有相似之处(例如，按钮的数量和大小、使用图标和图形进行交流，以及需要通过多种途径收集信息)。PIS将创建和研究使用和扩展两个社区的界面设计指南的界面，将领域专家聚集在一起，推出对认知要求较低的新一代界面，并为重要用户群体提供更广泛的使用。为此，团队将采用两种类型的干预：原型驱动的开发工作和分析性评估工作。原型驱动的开发工作将寻求通过以用户为中心的界面设计来满足移动社区和认知障碍用户社区的需求。分析性评估工作将参考认知障碍、移动接口、认知科学、人类干扰和健康与健康领域专家的意见，以确定最有希望的研发途径。PIS希望这项工作将两个领域联系起来，并有望通过继续研究和教学实现互惠互利。更广泛的影响：该项目连接了通常被认为不相关的两个领域，并有可能通过增加移动界面和认知障碍社区之间的跨域智力输出来改变界面设计的关键原则。这项研究将导致创建和分发界面给代表不足的群体的成员，这样做将引起人们对认知障碍者面临的问题的关注，并通过提供非诉讼、科学的方法来解决这些问题，以满足所有人使用移动界面进行移动通信的需求和愿望。该项目将加强科罗拉多大学和弗吉尼亚理工大学的研究人员之间的合作伙伴关系，通过在移动接口和认知障碍领域的顶级场所发表出版物和举办研讨会，使美国和世界各地受益。

This research, which involves collaboration between scientists from two institutions, will explore the intersection of interface design approaches for mobile users and users with cognitive disabilities, with the goal of identifying ways that best practices in each community can help the other create better interfaces. Initial investigation by the PIs, who possess individual expertise in the two fields, has identified similarities in the interface concerns between the two communities (e.g., the number and size of buttons, the use of icons and graphics to communicate, and the need for multiple paths to information collection). The PIs will create and study interfaces that use and expand the interface design guidelines for both communities, bringing together domain experts to launch a new generation of interfaces that are less cognitively demanding and more widely usable by important user populations. To these ends, the team will employ two types of interventions: a prototype driven development effort and an analytic evaluation effort. The prototype driven development effort will seek to address needs of mobile communities and communities of users with cognitive disabilities through user focused interface design. The analytic evaluation effort will draw upon the opinions of experts in the fields of cognitive disabilities, mobile interfaces, cognitive science, human interruption, and health and wellness, to identify the most promising avenues for research and development. The PIs expect that this work will connect two fields with promise for mutual benefit through continued research and teaching. Broader Impacts: This project connects two fields that are not generally considered to be related, and has the potential to transform key principles for interface design by increasing cross-domain intellectual output between the mobile interfaces and cognitive disabilities communities. This research will result in the creation and distribution of interfaces to members of an under-represented group, and in so doing will draw attention to the issues faced by people with cognitive disabilities and focus efforts to address them by providing avenues toward non-litigious, scientific approaches to deal with all people's needs and desires to communicate on the go with mobile interfaces.. The project will enhance partnerships between researchers at the University of Colorado and Virginia Tech, with benefits extending across the United States and the world through publications and workshops at top venues in the fields of mobile interfaces and cognitive disabilities.