REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education-Emerging Interface Technologies

爱荷华州立大学的SPIRE-EIT（跨学科研究和教育暑期项目-新兴接口技术）是一个为期10周的跨学科暑期项目，为10名本科生提供新兴接口技术的研究和教育。自2006年该网站成立以来，学生们对科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的承诺得到了证明，并发表了研究论文。为学生提供课堂培训，并获得使用尖端仪器、设备、计算机和网络基础设施的实践经验。计算机编程和图形学、界面设计、人机交互、研究技能、团队技能和伦理等课程占据了学生大约三分之一的时间。在一个专注于建立实践社区的不同寻常的结构中，学生以两到三人一组的方式进行跨学科研究项目，所有学生都位于爱荷华州立大学的虚拟现实应用中心（VRAC）。每个小组在VRAC教师的监督下与VRAC研究生进行互动。这些研究项目将以海报、演示和五页研究论文的形式在夏季结束时全校范围的研究研讨会上展示。学生们经常在学年晚些时候的研究会议上展示他们的研究。两个主要趋势正在推动新兴接口技术（EIT）的研究：接口技术本身的急剧增长，以及技术在我们日常生活中的无处不在的渗透。相应地，本研究侧重于新的界面，以提高人们的感知，对复杂性的理解和工作绩效。SPIRE让学生接触到EIT的三个广泛领域：信息可视化、虚拟/增强现实、人机交互。特别是，之前的项目侧重于改进飞行员的驾驶舱传感器显示，在国际空间站危机情况下智能代理对情感线索的最佳利用，使用虚拟现实改进无人机导航，使用增强现实减少工厂装配线的错误，减少网络疾病，改进用户界面以更快地管理交通事故，为帕金森病患者设计可穿戴生物传感器和使用无线脑电图（EEG）帽之间的权衡。关于本科生研究经历网站的更多信息可以在SPIRE-EIT网站上找到：http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/hci/reu/。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies) at Iowa State University is a 10-week interdisciplinary summer experience for 10 undergraduates that integrates research and education in emerging interface technologies. Since the site's inception in 2006, students' commitment to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields has been demonstrated, as well as producing research publications. Students are provided with classroom training and gain hands-on experience using cutting-edge instruments, equipment, computers and cyberinfrastructure. Classes in computer programming and graphics, interface design, human-computer interaction, research skills, team skills, and ethics occupy approximately one third of the students' time. In an unusual structure that is focused on building a community of practice, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups of two or three, with all students co-located in Iowa State's Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC). Each group interacts with VRAC graduate students under the supervision of VRAC faculty. The research projects are presented at an end-of-the summer campus-wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-page research paper. Frequently the students present their research at research conferences later during the school year. Two major trends are driving research in Emerging Interface Technologies (EIT): a dramatic increase of interface technologies themselves, and the ubiquitous permeation of technology into our everyday lives. Correspondingly, this research focuses on new interfaces that enhance people's perception, understanding of complexity, and work performance. The SPIRE exposes students to three broad areas of EIT: information visualization, virtual/augmented reality, human-agent interaction. In particular, previous projects have focused on improving cockpit sensor displays for pilots, the optimal use of emotional cues by intelligent agents during crisis situations in the International Space Station, use of virtual reality for improved drone navigation, use of augmented reality for reducing errors in factory assembly lines, reducing cyber sickness, improved user interfaces for faster traffic incident management, design tradeoffs of wearable biosensors and use of wireless electroencephalography (EEG) caps with people who have Parkinson's disease. More information about this Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site can be found at the SPIRE-EIT web site: http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/hci/reu/ .This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.