CAREER: Telepresence in Teleoperations

这项研究考察了远程呈现，“在远程站点的存在感”，这被认为是远程操作员和虚拟环境的理想设计。它的目的是解决关于网真起源的现存混淆，并发展一个似是而非的网真模型。这将通过对远程操作系统和人为因素对远程呈现主观测量的影响的实证研究，以及对客观表征远程呈现的生理变量和心理构念（包括注意力和情境意识）的研究来完成。本研究包括建立一个远程在场注意的描述性模型，以理解这一现象并预测其对远程操作绩效的影响。综合环境配置的设计指南也将基于该模型制定。通过独特的远程操作应用，如火星探测，这项工作有望成为促进人类感知认知能力有效传输到远程环境的一种工具，鼓励操作员有一种身处远程地点的感觉。这项工作的成果预计将适用于远程操作器和虚拟环境的频谱设计，并将整合到21世纪认知工程的研究生教育中。

This research examines telepresence, "the sense of being present at a remote site," which has been identified as a design ideal for teleoperators and virtual environments. It is intended to resolve extant confusion as to the origins of telepresence and to develop a plausible and parsimonious telepresence model. This is to be accomplished by empirical investigations of teleoperation system and human factor effects on subjective measures of telepresence along with studies of physiological variables and mental constructs, including attention and situation awareness, for objectively representing telepresence. The research involves developing a descriptive model of telepresence in attention for understanding the phenomenon and predicting its effect on teleoperation performance. Design guidelines for synthetic environment configuration are also to be formulated based on the model. The effort is expected to serve as a vehicle for promoting the effective transport of human perceptuo-cognitive capabilities into remote environments through unique teleoperator applications, such as the exploration of Mars, by encouraging in operators a sense of being at the remote site. Outcomes of the work are anticipated to be applicable to design of the spectrum of teleoperators and virtual environments and will be integrated in graduate student education in cognitive engineering for the 21st Century.