Workshop on Perceptive Animated Interfaces and Virtual Humans

感知动画界面代表了新一代的人机交互，在这种交互中，人与机器的交互就像人在特定任务领域中相互交互一样。 这些界面结合了虚拟人逼真的三维动画计算机角色，在特定的任务领域，如学习和培训，表现出专家的智慧和行为。虚拟人面向用户，在用户说话时提供真实的时间反馈（例如，摇头、微笑、困惑的表情），解释用户的听觉和视觉行为以推断他或她的意图和认知状态，并通过自然的面对面对话与用户敏感而有效地交流以实现任务的目标。 感知动画界面和虚拟人研讨会的目标是汇集来自科学学科的感兴趣的研究人员，以帮助概念化开发包含虚拟人的感知动画界面所涉及的挑战，考虑可能的研究议程和形成一个社区所需的步骤，该社区将共同努力，以促进朝着共同的研究目标取得进展。与会者包括来自人类交流，人机界面设计，人类语言技术，计算机视觉，计算机动画，认知科学和其他相关研究领域的科学家。讲习班活动包括评估相关学科的当前理论和实践，确定研究目标和目的，评估系统架构，确定可开发原型系统作为研究试验台的任务领域，并确定开展拟议工作所需的关键基础设施。 感知动画界面的发展有望通过提供更自然、更有效的交流体验来彻底改变人机交互，并极大地改善学习和培训的机会，以及获取网络信息的机会。研讨会报告将建议研究和开发感知动画界面和虚拟人的具体步骤。

Perceptive Animated Interfaces represent a new generation of human computer interaction, in which people interact with machines much like people interact with each other in specific task domains. These interfaces incorporate virtual humans-lifelike three dimensional animated computer characters that exhibit expert intelligence and behaviors in specific task domains, such as learning and training. Virtual humans orient to the user, provide real time feedback as the user is speaking (e.g., head nods, smiles, puzzled looks), interpret the user's auditory and visual behaviors to infer his or her intentions and cognitive state, and communicate with the user sensitively and effectively to achieve the goals of the task through natural face-to-face dialogues. The goal of the Workshop on Perceptive Animated Interfaces and Virtual Humans is to bring together interested researchers from scientific disciplines to help conceptualize the challenges involved in developing perceptive animated interfaces incorporating virtual humans, to consider possible research agendas and the steps required to form a community that will work together to stimulate progress toward shared research goals. Participants include scientists from areas of human communication, human interface design, human language technology, computer vision, computer animation, cognitive science and other relevant fields of study. Workshop activities include assessing current theories and practice in relevant disciplines, defining research goals and objectives, evaluating system architectures, identifying task domains for which prototype systems can be developed as test beds for research, and identifying critical infrastructure necessary to conduct proposed work. The development of perceptive animated interfaces is expected to revolutionize human computer interaction by providing more natural and effective communication experiences, and to improve dramatically opportunities for learning and training, and access to networked information. The workshop report will recommend concrete steps toward research and development of perceptive animated interfaces and virtual humans.