PRoPs and Gesturing Avatars: Embodied Robotic Interfaces

PRoP 和手势化身：具体机器人界面

• 批准号: 9978138
• 负责人: John Canny
• 金额: $ 36.06万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-10-01 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9978138&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PRoPs; Gesturing; Avatars; Embodied; Robotic

Abstract IIS-9978138Canny, JohnUniversity of California - Berkeley $116,863 - 12 mos.PRoPs and Gesturing Avatars: Embodied Robotic InterfacesThis is the first year funding of a three year continuing award. With the spread of personal computers and ubiquitous networking, computing has become a consumer technology. This growth was fed by demand for a new kind of computing: computers as *communication and information management tools*. But for a variety of reasons, nocurrent technology is a reasonable substitute for face-to-face communication. The ultimate computer-mediated communication form is telepresence via a robotic proxy. Many aspects of communication are possible only with this medium, and a precise characterization of those capabilities is the subject of this project. The project reliesheavily on concepts from the disciplines of inter-personal psychology and non-verbal communication. The former discipline deals with people's perception of a communication experience, how accurately they perceived the other person's intention, disposition, andemotions. Non-verbal communication studies the role of particular cues, like gaze, gesture and posture, in contributing to a communication experience. In this research, telerobots are called "PRoPs'' for Personal Roving Presence. The name emphasizes thepersonal connection between the pilot and the robot, and that the robot is not an autonomous agent, but a manifestation (a presence) of its pilot. The project focuses on telepresence in the workplace, and within that category, on informational (office) workplaces and laboratories (which involve more interaction with objects). The mainresearch issues to be explored are: (i) generating and controlling non-verbal communication cues, especially spatialized ones such as gaze and gesturing (ii) easy and intuitive navigation and (iii) affective haptics. The social contexts to be explored are (i)communication (ii) persuasion and (iii) trust-building.

美国加州大学伯克利分校IIS-9978138Canny$116,863-12美元。PRop和手势化身：嵌入式机器人界面这是一个为期三年的持续奖项的第一年资助。随着个人电脑和无处不在的网络的普及，计算已经成为一种消费技术。这一增长是由对一种新型计算的需求推动的：计算机作为*通信和信息管理工具*。但出于各种原因，目前的技术不是面对面交流的合理替代品。最终的计算机中介通信形式是通过机器人代理的远程呈现。通信的许多方面只有通过这种媒介才可能实现，而对这些能力的准确描述是本项目的主题。该项目在很大程度上依赖于人际心理和非语言交流学科的概念。前者涉及人们对交流体验的感知，以及他们感知他人意图、性格和情绪的精确度。非语言交际研究特定线索的作用，如凝视、手势和姿势，在促进交流体验方面的作用。在这项研究中，遥操作机器人被称为个人漫游存在的“道具”。这个名字强调了飞行员和机器人之间的个人联系，机器人不是一个自主代理，而是它的飞行员的一种表现(存在)。该项目的重点是工作场所的远程呈现，以及在这一类别中，信息(办公室)工作场所和实验室(涉及与物体的更多交互)。有待探索的主要研究问题是：(I)非语言交际线索的产生和控制，特别是空间化的线索，如凝视和手势；(Ii)简单直观的导航；(Iii)情感触觉。要探讨的社会背景是(一)交流(二)说服和(三)建立信任。