Principal Investigators: Radu-Daniel Vatavu (University of Suceava, Romania) and Wenjun Wu (Beihang University, China)
Funded by UEFISCDI, Romania and Ministry of Science and Technology, P.R. China
Funding scheme: PNIII P3 - European and International Cooperation
Running period: July 2018 - December 2019 (18 months)
Abstract
In this project, we plan to design and develop efficient, low-effort, and fluent interactions for users in smart environments
that enable task shifting from the center to the periphery of user attention. To this end, we address new software architecture designs, such as SAPIENS (Software Architecture for Peripheral Interaction in Smart Environments; see figure below, left), and we investigate new input techniques to support peripheral interactions for practical applications, such as smart pockets to control smart TVs (see figure below, middle).
Concrete objectives
Define a generic, comprehensive taxonomy for interactions in smart environments performed at the periphery of user attention
Design and implement software architecture to enable interactions at the periphery of user attention
Design, implement, and evaluate peripheral interaction techniques for smart environments
Team
The team includes experienced researchers and PhD students in Human-Computer Interaction and Software Engineering.
Research activities are conducted in the Machine Intelligence and Information Visualization Research Laboratory of the MANSiD Research Center (Suceava, Romania) and the State Key Lab of Software Development Environment, Beihang University (Beijing, China).
Irina Popovici, Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Wenjun Wu. (2019).
TV Channels in Your Pocket! Linking Smart Pockets to Smart TVs.
In Proceedings of TVX'19, the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 6 pages
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DOI
| ISI WOS:000482136600019
The SAPIENS software architecture, designed and implemented in this project and described in Schipor, Vatavu, and Wu (2019), has a dedicated web page. We also deliver our online simulation application for peripheral interaction, which enables practitioners to access JavaScript code and observe how live JSON messages are being exchanged by the various components of the SAPIENS architecture.
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