Adaptive Displays Conference 2004

August 7, 2004
Westin Bonaventure Hotel
Los Angeles, California

 

 
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Overview

The term "adaptive displays" has been used for some years, but has so far not made it into any realized form. The graphics and virtual reality community have worked towards greater and greater resolutions and detail in their displays, and seem to have assumed that more is always better. On the other hand, the cognitive science community has grappled with the problem of information overload/underload and the head-up display (HUD) community also has to balance amount of information displayed against the observer's ability to actually process and use that information in the context of a full workload. If one considers the fact that an observer's ability to absorb information varies depending on a host of physical, environmental and physiological factors, "tuning" an informational display becomes a problem of hitting a moving target.

To achieve a truly adaptive display, i.e. one that adjusts its contents to the constantly changing state of the observer requires that the designer be able to characterize not only the bandwidth required, but also to be able to "impedance match" the display to the observer, ideally by using non-contact (remote) sensing of the observer's cognitive state. The input data can conclude everything from command input lags through eye movement sensing to remote heart rate and temperature measures, to name only a few of the possibilities. Displayed data will have to be clearly differentiated from information absorbed and knowledge gained; metrics will have to be validated and a firm theoretical basis of displaying or "hiding" any data item as a function of observer state will need to be developed.

This workshop is intended to bring together physiologists, cognitive psychologists and display engineers so as to develop a common frame of reference for determining the research issues that must be solved before one can intelligently evaluate the costs and benefits of display tuning. The results of this workshop will include published proceedings in the journal CyberPsychology and Behavior and should help to define not only the state of current knowledge, but also a roadmap for the next steps towards the adaptive display.

 

 

 

 

  
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Co-Chairs

Elmar T. Schmeisser, PhD
US Army Research Office

Mark D. Wiederhold, MD, PhD, FACP
Interactive Media Institute
The Virtual Reality Medical Center

 

Scientific Co-Chairs

Barbara Helfer,
ACM SIGGRAPH Vice President

Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

 

Scientific Advisory Committee

Metin Akay, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College

Walter Greenleaf, Ph.D.
Greenleaf Medical

Mr. Jaron Lanier
Scientist

Alan Pope, Ph.D.
NASA Langley

Giuseppe Riva, Ph.D.
Istituto Auxologico Italiano

Brenda K. Wiederhold, Ph.D., MBA, BCIA
Interactive Media Institute
The Virtual Reality Medical Center

Mike Zyda, Ph.D.
Naval Postgraduate School

 

 

Invited Speakers

Cecilia Aragon
UC Berkeley

Jessica D. Bayliss, Ph.D.
Rochester Institue of Technology

Carole Beal, Ph.D.
University of Massachusetts-Amherst
University of Southern California

Yang Cai, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon

Kevin Caves, BSME
Duke University Medical Center

Missy Cummings, Ph.D.
MIT

Andrew Duchowski, Ph.D.
Clemson University

David Duke, Ph.D.
University of Leeds, UK

Jeff Lubin, Ph.D.
Sarnoff Corporation

Jeffrey Morrison, Ph.D.
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center

S. Narayanan, Ph.D.
Wright State University

Jim Rehg, Ph.D.
Georgia Institute of Technology

Daniel Repperger, Ph.D.
Wright Air Force Base

Carson Reynolds
MIT Media Lab

Brian Schowengerdt, Ph.D.
University of Washington

Benjamin Watson, Ph.D.
Northwestern University

Mike Zyda, Ph.D.
Naval Postgraduate School

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Registration Form (printable PDF format)

 

 

Conference Schedule

8:30 Welcome and Introductions

  

9:00 Missy Cummings, Ph.D.

The Need for Command and Control Instant Message Adaptive Interfaces: Lessons Learned from Tactical Tomahawk Human-in-the-Loop Simulations

9:20 Sundaram Narayanan, Ph.D

Source Recommendation System
9:40 Carson Reynolds

Ethical Evaluation of Displays that Adapt to Affect

10:00 Jessica Bayliss, Ph.D.

 Changing the P300 Brain-Computer Interface
10:20 David Duke, Ph.D.

Drawing Attention to Meaning

10:40 Jeff Lubin, Ph.D.

Salience Model Architectures for Adaptive Display Applications

11:00 Carole Beal, Ph.D.

Intelligent Tutoring Software

11:20 Benjamin Watson, Ph.D.

Adding Temporal Adaptivity to Interactive Display

11:40 Cecilia Aragon

Making the Invisible Visible: Augmented-Reality Airflow Hazard Visualization for Pilots
12:00 Lunch with Invited Speaker
  

1:30 Mike Zyda, Ph.D.

Technological Underpinnings of Adaptive Displays -- What we do not have and need
1:50 Daniel Repperger, Ph.D.

Adaptive Displays and Controllers Using Alternative Feedback
2:10 Brian Schowengerdt, Ph.D.

True 3D Displays that Allow Viewers to Dynamically Shift Accommodation
2:30 Andrew Duchowski, Ph.D.

Gaze-Contingent Displays: Review and Current Trends
2:50 Jeff Morrison, Ph.D.

The DARPA Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress: Augmented Cognition Program
3:10 Jim Rehg, Ph.D.

Virtual Rear Project and Interactive Displays
3:30 Yang Cai, Ph.D.
 Minimalism Context-Aware Display
3:50 Discussion  
5:00 End of Discussion
  
** Adaptive Displays Exhibit Area open from 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Sponsored by:

Interactive Media Institute
US Army Research Office

Costs

Attendees $100
Academic Exhibitors (affiliated with a University) $100
Commercial Exhibitors $500

Note: Academic exhibitors receive one free conference pass.
Commercial exhibitors receive two free conference passes

Selected papers will be published in CyberPsychology, & Behavior and indexed in Medline.