Intelligent User Interface in Cloud Manufacturing

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Baocun Hou ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Dongxing Teng
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
End Users ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Smart Mobility

The idea of cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business in this age of globalization. The development of cloud manufacturing is closely linked to domain specific users in manufacturing industry. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry will face great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus user interface issues play important roles in this new area. Current research on cloud manufacturing pays more attention to internal cloud while makes light of external end-users’ usability, i.e. user interface issues. In this paper we discuss the key characteristics of Intelligent User Interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction.

Cloud-Based Intelligent User Interface for Cloud Manufacturing: Model, Technology, and Application

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Jin Cui ◽  
Ni Li ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Cuixia Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Service Oriented

Cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business from traditional production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing. The development of cloud manufacturing in industry practice is closely related to domain-specific user experience. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry are facing great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus, user interface issues play a significant role in pushing this new area forward. In this paper, we discuss the key characteristics of intelligent user interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction. Finally, we present SketchPart, a sketch-based pad system prototype for searching part drawings in the cloud, to show the advantages of the proposed cloud-plus-IUI solution.

Theory, supporting technology and application analysis of cloud manufacturing: a systematic and comprehensive literature review

2020 ◽  
Vol 120 (8) ◽  
pp. 1585-1614
Author(s):  
Ming K. Lim ◽  
Weiqing Xiong ◽  
Zhimei Lei
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Feature Identification ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Development Status ◽  
Comprehensive Literature Review ◽  
Key Characteristics

PurposeCloud manufacturing (CMfg) is a networked manufacturing mode that promotes the agile, service-oriented, green and intelligent development of the manufacturing industry. Although some scholars have reviewed related studies of CMfg from multiple perspectives, these reviews are not fully systematic or well justified and fail to fully reveal the key characteristics in the development process of CMfg. The purpose of this paper is to systematically review the relevant research on CMfg via identification of key characteristics of definition, architecture, supporting technology and application of CMfg to provide critical information in decision support for the innovation and development of CMfg.Design/methodology/approachThis study systematically reviews the relevant research on CMfg across theoretical methods to technical applications by integrating quantitative and qualitative methods. Word cloud method is used to quantitatively analyse the structure and feature of different definitions of CMfg. The principle of System Science is used to explore the basic components and functions of various CMfg architectures and their common and differing characteristics. A multi-level technology framework is developed to explore the development status of CMfg supporting technologies. A multi-stage application classification is proposed to reveal the application status of CMfg.FindingsThrough literature review, this study found that CMfg architecture is currently dominated by general architectures and lacks architectures that fit the actual enterprise characteristics; CMfg supporting technology is mature in the traditional cloud computing-based technology, but it is still weak in the development of virtualization and servitization technology, service scheduling technology; CMfg application is still in the initial stage and still lacks a relatively complete system application. By analysing the development status of CMfg, this study also identified potential research directions of CMfg in information management, service composition and evaluation, system application and sustainable development and other aspects.Research limitations/implicationsThis paper predominantly focuses on journal articles and some key conference papers published in English and Chinese. Chinese articles account for more than half of the total. The reason is that CMfg was proposed by the Chinese and CMfg is suitable for the development of China's manufacturing industry because of China's intelligent manufacturing environment. It is believed that this research has reached a reliable comprehensiveness that can help scholars and practitioners establish new research directions and evaluate their work in CMfg.Originality/valuePrior literature reviews ignore the identification and analysis of key feature identification for the current development of CMfg, including common and unique feature identification of different CMfg architectures and functions, multi-layer analysis and interpretation of CMfg technology and different stage analysis of CMfg applications. This study addresses these limitations and provides a comprehensive literature review.

scholarly journals Evaluating the Comprehensiveness of VR PLAY Guidelines Using Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 2287-2291
Author(s):  
Daniel Smith ◽  
Jasmine Granados ◽  
Joel Suss
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Control Design ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
Interface Elements ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Game Developers

Heuristic evaluation is a useful tool for non-usability experts to evaluate their product for usability and produce lists of guidelines for product designers to avoid usability problems early in the development process. However, Nielsen’s 10 original us ability heuristics (Nielsen, 1990) only showed to help users find slightly over 50% of the usability problems found by experts. This highlights the need for domain-specific heuristic lists. An example of one of these domain-specific lists is VR PLAY (Desurvire & Kreminski, 2018), a heuristic list to help virtual-reality game developers evaluate their games and adhere to usability principles. The current research evaluated Elder Scrolls: Skyrim VR for usability problems that were then categorized using VR PLAY. Results showed some missing usability principles in VR PLAY, including guidelines for control design, user interface elements, and navigation. This study proposes changes to VR PLAY to include the principles.

M. A. Ayuh. Made in Jamaica: The Development of Manufacturing Sector. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981. xxii+128 pp.

1986 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-95
Author(s):  
Najam-us- Saqib
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Industrial Base ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
The World ◽  
Caribbean Country ◽  
Bauxite Ore ◽  
Made In

Jamaica, known in the world for her rich deposits of bauxite ore, is a small Caribbean country with an area of 10991 square kilometers and a population of just over two million individuals. This beautifu11and, which was described by Columbus as "The fairest isle that eyes have beheld" has developed a remarkably diversified manufacturing sector starting from a modest industrial base. Jamaica's manufacturing industry enjoyed a respectable growth rate of about 6 percent per annum during the good old days of the euphoric '50s and '60s. However, those bright sunny days ''when to live was bliss" were followed by the chilling winter of much subdued progress. The rise and fall of growth have aroused considerable interest among economists and policy• makers. The book under review probes the causes of this behaviour by analysing key characteristics of Jamaican manufacturing sector and tracing its path of evolution.

Investigating a Virtual Reality-based Emergency Response Scenario and Intelligent User Interface for First Responders

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 2114-2118
Author(s):  
Randall Spain ◽  
Jason Saville ◽  
Barry Lui ◽  
Donia Slack ◽  
Edward Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
User Interface ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Mental Workload ◽  
First Responders ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intelligent User Interfaces ◽  
Intelligent User Interface

Because advances in broadband capabilities will soon allow first responders to access and use many forms of data when responding to emergencies, it is becoming critically important to design heads-up displays to present first responders with information in a manner that does not induce extraneous mental workload or cause undue interaction errors. Virtual reality offers a unique medium for envisioning and testing user interface concepts in a realistic and controlled environment. In this paper, we describe a virtual reality-based emergency response scenario that was designed to support user experience research for evaluating the efficacy of intelligent user interfaces for firefighters. We describe the results of a usability test that captured firefighters’ feedback and reactions to the VR scenario and the prototype intelligent user interface that presented them with task critical information through the VR headset. The paper concludes with lessons learned from our development process and a discussion of plans for future research.

Special Issue on Highlights of ACM Intelligent User Interface (IUI) 2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Mark Billinghurst ◽  
Margaret Burnett ◽  
Aaron Quigley
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Intelligent User Interface

Facilitating 3D Virtual World Learning Environments Creation by Non-Technical End Users through Template-Based Virtual World Instantiation

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang Liu ◽  
Ying Zhong ◽  
Sertac Ozercan ◽  
Qing Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Virtual Worlds ◽  
Virtual World ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
End Users ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
3D Design ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Functional Learning ◽  
Preliminary Experimental Data

This paper presents a template-based solution to overcome technical barriers non-technical computer end users face when developing functional learning environments in three-dimensional virtual worlds (3DVW). iVirtualWorld, a prototype of a platform-independent 3DVW creation tool that implements the proposed solution, facilitates 3DVW learning environment creation through semantics-based abstract 3DVW representation and template-based 3DVW instantiation. iVirtualWorld provides a wizard to guide the 3DVW creation process, and hide low-level programming and 3D design details through higher-level abstracts supported by pre-defined templates. Preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of iVirtualWorld showed positive results. The contribution of this study is threefold: 1) It provides a paradigm for investigating and developing 3DVW building tools from end users’ perspective; 2) It develops a prototype of a 3DVW building tool, which gives educators a framework to easily create educational virtual worlds using domain-specific concepts; 3) It conducts empirical research and collected preliminary experimental data for evaluation.

Human–robot interaction via voice-controllable intelligent user interface

Robotica ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harsha Medicherla ◽  
Ali Sekmen
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Spatial Reasoning ◽  
User Preferences ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Manual Control ◽  
Reasoning Ability ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Voice Control

SUMMARYAn understanding of how humans and robots can successfully interact to accomplish specific tasks is crucial in creating more sophisticated robots that may eventually become an integral part of human societies. A social robot needs to be able to learn the preferences and capabilities of the people with whom it interacts so that it can adapt its behaviors for more efficient and friendly interaction. Advances in human– computer interaction technologies have been widely used in improving human–robot interaction (HRI). It is now possible to interact with robots via natural communication means such as speech. In this paper, an innovative approach for HRI via voice-controllable intelligent user interfaces is described. The design and implementation of such interfaces are described. The traditional approaches for human–robot user interface design are explained and the advantages of the proposed approach are presented. The designed intelligent user interface, which learns user preferences and capabilities in time, can be controlled with voice. The system was successfully implemented and tested on a Pioneer 3-AT mobile robot. 20 participants, who were assessed on spatial reasoning ability, directed the robot in spatial navigation tasks to evaluate the effectiveness of the voice control in HRI. Time to complete the task, number of steps, and errors were collected. Results indicated that spatial reasoning ability and voice-control were reliable predictors of efficiency of robot teleoperation. 75% of the subjects with high spatial reasoning ability preferred using voice-control over manual control. The effect of spatial reasoning ability in teleoperation with voice-control was lower compared to that of manual control.

Dynamic Manufacturing Capability Assessment of Industrial Robots Based on Feedback Information in Cloud Manufacturing

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeyu Zhang ◽  
Wenjun Xu ◽  
Quan Liu ◽  
Zude Zhou ◽  
Duc Truong Pham
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Dynamic Assessment ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Industrial Robots ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Advanced Technology ◽  
Distribution Model ◽  
Information Feedback ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Manufacturing Capability

With the development of information and computer network technology, cloud manufacturing has been developing rapidly, industrial robots (IRs) as a vital symbol and an advanced technology of manufacturing industry, in scheduling service, the constantly changing information data will result in the corresponding vary of the manufacturing capability. Under a fixed constraint of some capability service request, this will decrease the number of the optimal solutions and provide the inaccurate service to users. So it is important to make the manufacturing capability stable and obtain more optimal solutions to satisfy the constraint, thus the dynamic assessment of manufacturing capability based on information feedback is investigated in this paper. A set of indicators is established considering the IRs’ manufacturing capability and a new dynamic assessment model is proposed to achieve the actual data and the expected data information feedback, using the “normal distribution” model, which can correct the assessment weight. By the way, a case study is simulated in the MATLAB, which shows the reliability and reasonability of this method in evaluate the manufacturing capability in IR.

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