Ambient information representation: managing increasing data (overseas travel grant)

这是一份旅行补助申请，允许我在南非与合作者一起工作近七周。随着我们的生活越来越被数字媒体所充实，我们受到了关于我们、我们的家人、朋友和整个世界的大量数据的冲击。我们可以更容易地获取个人信息（例如投资组合状况或银行账户详细信息），更广泛地获取一般信息（新闻网站、天气数据、移动博客），或者通过更多地使用社交媒体（移动设备上的信使、Facebook）。数据可用性的增加与通过移动设备和个人设备随时随地访问数据的能力的增强相辅相成，使我们永远连接并意识到这个数字世界。不仅仅是手机改变我们可以并想给人:用户的本质被移动允许他们在任何地方,经常从事其他活动的重点注意:正因为如此,有一个新的nways和增加问题,不要强迫自己关注的前沿,因此干预可能是另一种形式的这些我们正在设计计算机应用程序和网站。研究如何以最合适的方式将信息呈现给那些不一定关注信息或设备的人，以一种有效的、不引人注目的方式呈现信息，并发现这些信息的感知和解释背后的潜在原则是这项工作的目的。这次访问有两个主要目的。首先是积极与开普敦大学（University of Cape Town）的加里•马斯登（Gary Marsden）教授合作，探索在大型和小型（包括移动）设备上显示环境信息的新思路。这次访问可能会在环境信息的可视化、信息的微妙呈现、系统的设计以及加深我们对人们如何注意、感知和解释这些显示的认识方面产生新的想法。其次是遇到一些新事物：通过与马斯登教授和南非大学（University of South Africa）葆拉•科策（Paula Kotze）教授共同开展一个现有的社区项目，对技术可能对一个不同于我所熟悉的社会产生的影响有更深入的了解。

This is a travel grant application, to allow me to work alongside collaborators in South Africa for a period of nearly seven weeks.As our lives become increasing augmented by digital media, we are subject to an onslaught of data about us, our family, friends, and the world in general. There is easier access to our personal information (such as the state of an investment portfolio, or our bank account details), wider availability of general information (news sites, weather data, mobile blogs) or via increased use of social media (messenger on mobile devices, Facebook). This increased availability of data has gone hand-in-hand with an increased ability to access it anywhere through mobile and personal devices, making us permanently connected to and aware of this digital world. It is not only that mobile devices alter what we can and may want to present to people: the nature of users being mobile allows them to be anywhere, often engaged in other activities that are the primary focus of their attention: because of this, there is a new and increasing problem in nways that do not force themselves to the forefront of attention, and hence interventions may have to be of a different form to those we are currently designing for computer applications and websites. Investigating the most appropriate ways to present information to people who are not necessarily focussed on that information or on the device, to do it in an effective, unobtrusive manner, and to discover the underlying principles behind the perception and interpretation of this information is the aim of this work.The visit has two primary aims. The first is to actively work alongside Prof Gary Marsden, University of Cape Town, exploring new ideas in ambient information displays on both large and small (including mobile) devices. This visit is likely to develop new ideas in the visualization of ambient information, in the subtle presentation of that information, in the design of such systems, and in deepening our knowledge of how people notice, perceive and interpret such displays. The second is to encounter something new: to gain a greater understanding of the impact that technology can have on a different society to the one I am used to, working on an existing community project with both Prof Marsden and Prof Paula Kotze, University of South Africa.