ITR: Using Virtual Environment Technology to Understand and Augment Social Interaction

ITR：使用虚拟环境技术来理解和增强社交互动

• 批准号: 0205740
• 负责人: James Blascovich
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0205740&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; Using; Virtual; Environment; Technology

This project focuses on facilitating and augmenting social interaction in virtual environments, particularly immersive virtual environments. Virtual environment technology allows individuals to freely move about digital "worlds" in real time observing and interacting with the environment and virtual others within it. Increased sophistication of virtual environment technology and digital imaging of people promises a new age for technologically mediated social interaction of geographically separated individuals. However, in order to implement such interaction virtually in meaningful and productive ways, an understanding of the parameters of people's perceptions of each other's non-verbal signals (e.g., facial expressions, gestures, gaze) within virtual environments is necessary. Such an understanding will provide a hierarchical taxonomy of the necessary and sufficient non-verbal signals that are critical to social interaction within virtual environments and, therefore, must be tracked and rendered among interactions in virtual environments. Realizing the objectives of the proposed project will advance scientific understanding in the areas of social interaction and non-verbal behavior, human participation in collaborative virtual environments, and technological (e.g., computer vision) aspects of automated tracking and rendering of human on-verbal signals.

该项目侧重于促进和增强虚拟环境中的社交互动，特别是沉浸式虚拟环境。虚拟环境技术允许个人在数字“世界”中自由移动，实时观察环境并与环境中的虚拟他人互动。虚拟环境技术和人的数字成像技术的日益成熟，预示着地理上分离的个人通过技术媒介进行社会互动的新时代。然而，为了以有意义和富有成效的方式实现这种虚拟互动，了解人们在虚拟环境中对彼此非语言信号（如面部表情、手势、凝视）的感知参数是必要的。这样的理解将提供必要和充分的非语言信号的等级分类，这些信号对虚拟环境中的社会互动至关重要，因此必须在虚拟环境中的互动中进行跟踪和呈现。实现拟议项目的目标将促进对社会互动和非语言行为、人类参与协作虚拟环境以及自动跟踪和呈现人类非语言信号的技术（例如计算机视觉）方面的科学理解。