CoPe EAGER: Creating Interactive Augmented Reality of Extreme Coastal Hazards for Stakeholder Education

有效宣传海啸和飓风等极端沿海事件的危害是利益攸关方参与和教育的最重要组成部分之一。EAGER项目将开发一个增强现实/混合现实（AR/MR）平台，用于向更广泛的公众传达沿海灾害。有关于如何为各种AR平台开发海岸波浪模拟模型的初步概念，这项工作将调查这样一个系统的可行性。AR硬件选项涵盖了广泛的计算能力，从复杂且相对昂贵的智能眼镜（例如Magic Leap One或Microsoft HoloLens）到智能手机。一个真正有用的AR工具应该在一系列硬件选项上可用。研究战略将是从简单开始，建立复杂性。最初，该项目将尝试使用现有的流体动力学模型为理想化的小型沿海社区创建AR可视化。从这项任务开始，该项目将处理用户和流体动力学信息的地理参考挑战，以及构建可以在可用硬件上可视化的地形/建筑布局/流体动力学叠加。接下来，该项目将修改这个简单的AR布局，以允许流体动力学与环境相互作用，例如在建筑物周围产生海啸。在项目的第二年，申请将扩大到目标社区，至少一个在太平洋西北部，一个在海湾/东海岸。该项目的最终任务是访问这些社区，展示创建的AR和MR应用程序，并接收任何未来发展的反馈。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Effective communication of hazards from extreme coastal events, such as tsunamis and hurricanes, is one of the most important components of stakeholder engagement and education. This EAGER project will develop an Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality (AR/MR) platform for the communication of coastal hazards to the broader public. There are preliminary concepts on how a coastal wave simulation model might be developed for various AR platforms, and this effort will investigate the feasibility of such a system. AR hardware options span a wide range of computational ability, from complex and relatively expensive smart glasses (e.g. the Magic Leap One or the Microsoft HoloLens) to smart phones. A truly useful AR tool should be available on a range of hardware options. The research strategy will be to start simple and build complexity. Initially, the project will attempt to use existing hydrodynamic models to create AR visualizations for idealized, small coastal communities. From this task, the project will have a handle on the challenges of geo-referencing the user and the hydrodynamic information, as well as building a topography/building layout/hydrodynamic overlay that can be visualized on available hardware. Next, the project will modify this simple AR layout to allow the hydrodynamics to interact with the environment for example to have a tsunami flow around a building. In the second year of the project, applications will extend to target communities, at least one in the Pacific Northwest and one in the Gulf/East coast. The final task of this project is to visit these communities, demonstrate the created AR and MR applications, and receive feedback for any future development.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.