Nuance-Oriented Interfaces in Virtual Environments

Virtual Environment (VE) user interfaces do not generally support personalized interaction or the ability to adapt to the user. Our research is developing nuance-oriented interfaces that take advantage of subtle clues that users give in their actions. To that end, we have performed five experiments with the goal of recognizing and applying nuances for the task of selection. We found evidence that users adapt their behavior to the feedback given by the system, rather than using a preconceived mental model of the environment. In addition, users' behavior can be modeled by a reward function. Lastly, users interact by trading off exploration with exploitation. We propose a method of modeling this behavior using machine learning as future work.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Department dc:contributor.department

Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

2001

Author dc:creator

• Wingrave, Chadwick Allan

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Bowman, Douglas A.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Kriz, Ronald D.
• Ramakrishnan, Naren

• Machine learning
• Virtual Environments
• Nuance
• human factors
• interface design
• Virtual Reality
• Nuance-Oriented

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Dc Identifier Other

etd-08212001-155720

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/34674