Interacting with Human Physiology

与人体生理学相互作用

• 批准号: 0741581
• 负责人: Ioannis Pavlidis
• 金额: $ 4.29万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0741581&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interacting; Human; Physiology

This is funding to enable the PI to explore an unexpected opportunity that has come to light during research funded under his current award (0414754) entitled "Interacting with Human Physiology." The new work will extend the scope of the project in a timely and important new direction. GSR (Galvanic Skin Response) is the most sensitive and specific physiological sensing mode for stress quantification during human-computer interaction. Under the existing grant, the PI has demonstrated that periorbital and supraorbital sensing can also quantify stress and be used in interactivity experiments. More importantly, periorbital and supraorbital sensing can be carried out at a distance (via thermal imaging) and on an easily accessible tissue area (the face). These are tremendous advantages, because the user is left undisturbed. Recently, the PI has identified a channel on the maxillary area, which is of the same cholinergic nature as the palm channel that GSR measures, and has begun to develop a comprehensive theory that accounts for all facial channels (periorbital, supraorbital, and maxillary) and quantifies them against GSR, the emerging result being a "facial GSR channel-at-a-distance." This is a potential breakthrough, as it identifies a contact-free measurement method that can provably perform as well as the best contact method (GSR) in psycho-physiological studies. This funding will allow the PI to address initially technical challenges that remain unsolved, which relate to degradation of the facial signals due to residual imperfections in segmentation and tracking. The major portion of the new effort will concentrate on exploration of interactivity issues where the integrated methodology will be compared vis-a-vis the traditional GSR technology, with a focus on mission critical software. Broader Impacts: A portion of this funding will provide for the organization of the first workshop of its kind on "Physiological Monitoring 24/7 and its Interactivity Potential" that will be hosted in late August at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference to be held in Lyon, France. The University of Lyon has kindly provided a conference room for this event and identified a few dorm rooms that can be used to house graduate student participants, which will greatly reduce the cost to NSF.

这是资金，使PI探索一个意想不到的机会，已经在他目前的奖项（0414754）资助的研究，题为“与人类生理学的相互作用。“新的工作将在一个及时和重要的新方向上扩大项目的范围。 皮肤电反应（Galvanic Skin Response，GSR）是人机交互过程中最敏感、最特异的生理传感模式。 在现有的资助下，PI已经证明眶周和眶上感知也可以量化压力，并用于互动实验。 更重要的是，眶周和眶上感测可以在一定距离处（通过热成像）和容易接近的组织区域（面部）上进行。 这些都是巨大的优势，因为用户不受干扰。 最近，PI已经确定了上颌骨区域的通道，其与GSR测量的手掌通道具有相同的胆碱能性质，并且已经开始开发一种综合理论，该理论解释了所有面部通道（眶周、眶上和上颌骨），并将其与GSR进行量化，新的结果是“面部GSR通道-远距离”。“这是一个潜在的突破，因为它确定了一种非接触式测量方法，可以证明在心理生理研究中表现得与最佳接触方法（GSR）一样好。 这笔资金将使PI能够初步解决尚未解决的技术挑战，这些挑战与由于分割和跟踪中的残留缺陷而导致的面部信号退化有关。 这项新工作的主要部分将集中于探索交互性问题，其中将把综合方法与传统的地面反应堆技术进行比较，重点放在使命关键软件上。 更广泛的影响：这笔资金的一部分将用于组织第一次关于“生理监测24/7及其互动潜力”的研讨会，该研讨会将于8月下旬在法国里昂举行的IEEE医学和生物学工程会议上主办。 里昂大学为这次活动提供了一个会议室，并确定了几个宿舍，可用于容纳研究生参与者，这将大大降低成本，以国家科学基金会。