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Information Cockpits
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InfoCockpits Homepage
InfoCockpits are human-computer interfaces that improve human memory. Our basic approach is to take well-understood psychology principles and apply them to the design of information displays, much as the 1970's GUI desktop metaphor applied principles from psychology and graphic design. We will utilize the fact that human beings are adept at remembering information based on its location relative to their body, and on the place where they were when they learned it.
Our implementations will use two basic strategies:
1) Multiple spatial displays surrounding the user, to engage human memory for location, and 2)
Ambient context displays, both visual & auditory, to engage human memory for place.
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Research
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How do we design computer interfaces that can improve human memory and performance?
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| Researchers |
Tom Banton, Jason Cervenka, Ben Darling, Cedar Riener, Jeanine Stefanucci
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| Collaborators |
Randy Pausch and the Stage3 Research Group, Hunter Downs, Traci Downs, Chad Dodson
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Current
Experiments |
Using real-time brain imaging with fNIR to modify computer displays, reinstatement of context, spatial arrangement of monitors, color as context, affecting mood
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| Equipment |
Five 19" flat-panel displays, large curved projection screen, three high-intensity projectors, full surround sound
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| Publications |
Stefanucci, J. K., O’Hargan, S. P., & Proffitt, D. R. (2007). Augmenting context-dependent memory. Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making, 1, 391-404.
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Bakdash, J.Z., Augustyn, J.S., and Proffitt, D.R. (2006). Large displays enhance spatial
knowledge of a virtual environment. In Proceedings of the 3rd Annual ACM
SIGGRAPH Symposium on Applied Perception in Graphics and Visualization, p. 59-62.
Tan, D.S., Stefanucci, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., Pausch, R. (2002). Kinesthesis Aids Human Memory. Short paper at CHI 2002 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Minneapolis, MN.
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Stefanucci, J. K., Downs, T. H., Snyder, A. P., Downs, J. H., Proffitt, D.R. (2002). Context-dependent memory engages a frontal-parietal-occipital network. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.
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Stefanucci, J. K., & Proffitt, D. R. (2002). Providing distinctive cues to augment human memory. Poster presented at the 24th Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Fairfax, VA.
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Tan, D.S., Stefanucci, J.K., Proffitt, D.R., Pausch, R. (2001) The Infocockpit: Providing Location and Place to Aid Human Memory. Workshop on Perceptive User Interfaces 2001, Orlando, Florida.
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