CISE CRI: Community Resources for Inventing the Next Generation of Human Computer Interfaces

CISE CRI：发明下一代人机界面的社区资源

• 批准号: 0551723
• 负责人: Wayne Ward
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-03-15 至 2008-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0551723&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CISE; CRI; Community; Resources; Inventing

This project, aiming at accelerating research and development of computer interfaces that support natural conversational interaction with virtual humans, develops a virtual human toolkit for designing and experimenting multimedia programs that support real time conversational interaction with virtual humans, and resources for corpus-based research to generate animation of computer characters automatically from text and/or speech. The virtual human toolkit will consist of an integrated set of authoring tools and research tools for developing multimedia applications that incorporate virtual humans in intelligent tutoring systems, speech therapy systems, and other applications. The toolkit provides authoring tools and tutorials for presenting and interacting with media (text, images, and animations), designing and controlling lifelike 3D computer characters, and designing natural spoken dialogs. Research advances and real time systems should impact individuals and society by providing efficient and effective computer interfaces. The research tools can be used to gain new insights into the learning and therapeutic processes by designing systems that manipulate presentation of media and behaviors of virtual humans. The proposed work should lower the barriers and provide new tools to advance knowledge in some of the following areas: intelligent tutoring systems, spoken dialog systems, speech recognition, computer character animation, machine perception and learning, and human social dynamics.Broader Impact: The development of virtual humans that behave like sensitive and effective reading teachers, speech therapists, medical helpers, and general assistants might impact quality of life for many illiterate, challenged, or disabled individuals. Computer-based learning and tutoring systems provide unprecedented opportunities for benefiting from accessible and inexpensive tutoring and therapy systems.

本计画旨在加速研究与开发支援与虚拟人自然对话互动的电脑介面，开发虚拟人工具箱，用于设计与实验支援与虚拟人即时对话互动的多媒体程式，以及为基于语料库的研究提供资源，以自动从文字或语音生成电脑角色动画。虚拟人工具包将包括一套完整的创作工具和研究工具，用于开发多媒体应用程序，将虚拟人整合到智能辅导系统、语言治疗系统和其他应用程序中。该工具包提供了用于呈现和交互媒体（文本、图像和动画）、设计和控制逼真的3D计算机角色以及设计自然语音对话的创作工具和教程。研究进展和实时系统应该通过提供高效和有效的计算机接口来影响个人和社会。研究工具可用于通过设计操纵虚拟人的媒体和行为表现的系统来获得对学习和治疗过程的新见解。建议的工作应该降低障碍，并提供新的工具来推进以下一些领域的知识：智能辅导系统，口语对话系统，语音识别，计算机角色动画，机器感知和学习，以及人类社会动态。更广泛的影响：虚拟人的发展，表现得像敏感而有效的阅读老师、语言治疗师、医疗助手和一般助理，可能会影响许多文盲、残疾人或残疾人的生活质量。以计算机为基础的学习和辅导系统提供了前所未有的机会，使人们受益于可获得和廉价的辅导和治疗系统。