NSERC/AITF/SMART Industrial Research Chair in Interactive Technologies

现代社会要求人们以越来越快的速度管理、交流和互动数字信息和数字设备。问题不在于信息本身，而在于信息的庞大数量，以及现在提供的呈现、交换、查看和交互的笨拙方式。因此，主席的总体目标是：设计、开发和评估互动技术，以支持人们如何查看、表示、管理和与信息互动以及如何与信息协作的日常实践。主席将通过两个相互关联的研究主题实现这一目标。首先，交互式可视化研究了数字世界为人们探索密集和复杂的信息空间提供的可能性。总体目标是通过为人们提供适当的交互技术和数字显示来促进理解，帮助他们将信息转化为知识。其次，流体交互考虑如何将显示这些信息的技术设计为真实世界环境的真正组成部分。总体目标是创造新的显示器和设备，以适应、支持和参与——而不是忽视——人们和周围环境的日常社会实践。这两个主题是紧密交织在一起的：交互式可视化考虑了信息的基本性质，以及人们如何通过技术有效地与信息进行交互，而流体交互则考虑了这些技术如何以与人们的日常实践和惯例相结合的方式表现出来。这项研究将利用Carpendale在为交互技术创造新颖设计方面的专业知识。她与她的工业赞助商SMART Technologies， ULC有着深厚的合作历史，其中包括SMART Technologies， Inc.和阿尔伯塔省AITF机构共同资助的工业主席。

Modern society demands that people manage, communicate and interact with digital information and digitaldevices at an ever-increasing pace. The problem is not with the information itself, but rather with its sheervolume and the unwieldy ways now provided to present, exchange, view and interact with it. Consequently, theoverall objective of the Chair is to: design, develop and evaluate interactive technologies so that they supportthe everyday-world practices of how people view, represent, manage, and interact with information and howthey collaborate with it. The Chair will realize this objective through two inter-related research themes. First,interactive visualization investigates the possibilities the digital world affords for peoples' exploration of denseand complex information spaces. The overall goal is to promote comprehension by providing people withappropriate interactive technologies and digital displays that help them transform information into knowledge.Second, fluid interaction considers how the technology that displays this information can be designed as a trulyintegral part of the real world environment. The overall goal is to create new displays and devices that fit,support and participate in - rather than ignore - the everyday-world social practices of people and theirsurrounding environment. Both themes are tightly intertwined: Interactive visualization considers thefundamental nature of information and how people can effectively interact with it through technology, whilefluid interaction considers how these technologies manifest themselves in ways that integrate with the everydaypractices and routines of people.This research will leverage Carpendale's expertise in the creation of novel designs for interactive technologies.Her strong history of collaboration with her industrial sponsor, SMART Technologies, ULC, is a sponsorshipthat includes an Industrial Chair co-funded by SMART Technologies, Inc. and Alberta's AITF agency.