HCC: Small: Collaborative Research: Cloud Primer: Leveraging Common Sense Computing to Learn Parent-Child Interaction Models for Early Childhood Literacy

HCC：小型：协作研究：Cloud Primer：利用常识计算学习亲子互动模型以提高儿童早期读写能力

• 批准号: 1117584
• 负责人: Sonia Chernova
• 金额: $ 19.42万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1117584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Collaborative; Research; Cloud

Providing young children with opportunities to develop early literacy skills is important to their success in school, their success in learning to read, and their success in life. This project focuses on the creation of a new interactive reading primer technology on tablet computers that will foster early literacy skills and shared parent-child reading through the use of a targeted discussion-topic suggestion system aimed at the adult participant. The Cloud Primer will crowdsource the interactions and discussions of parent-child dyads across a community of readers. It will then leverage this information in combination with a common sense knowledge base to develop computational models of the interactions. These models will then be used to provide context-sensitive discussion topic suggestions to parents during the shared reading activity with young children. The work will be evaluated in week-long at-home studies.Intellectual merit: The project will make fundamental theoretical contributions to models of human-human and human-computer interaction, and their use in fostering engagement and learning. The effort will also produce new insights into how common sense reasoning can be integrated with large-scale data collection to develop interactive technologies that deal gracefully with inconsistencies and noise to provide diverse and semantically meaningful responses in unconstrained, real-world environments.Broader impacts: Research shows that one in three children in the United States enter kindergarten unprepared, and the majority of children who start behind typically stay behind. The Cloud Primer will counteract this trend by leveraging a community of readers to define a set of common discussion topics, actively exposing parents to these topics, and, through a simple touch interface, providing children of pre-reading age a mechanism for engaging adults in discussion. The new context and common sense aware interactive reading primer will be a fundamental advance over current digital reading technologies, which neither effectively achieve educational goals when used alone, nor support joint reading and adult engagement. The project will further contribute to education through undergraduate research, graduate thesis research, graduate course development, and outreach programs to women and under-represented minorities. To promote research in this area, the project will make all parent-child interaction data captured and annotated in the process of this research freely available to the research community, together with the Cloud Primer software. Furthermore, the computational methods developed through the course of this research will have applications in interactive domains beyond early literacy, such as foreign language learning.

为幼儿提供发展早期识字技能的机会，对他们在学校的成功、学习阅读的成功和生活的成功都很重要。该项目的重点是在平板电脑上创建一种新的互动式阅读入门技术，通过使用针对成年参与者的有针对性的讨论主题建议系统，培养早期识字技能和亲子共同阅读。《云入门》将在读者社区中众包亲子二人组的互动和讨论。然后，它将利用这些信息与常识知识库相结合，开发相互作用的计算模型。然后，这些模型将用于在与幼儿共享阅读活动期间向父母提供上下文敏感的讨论主题建议。 这项工作将在为期一周的家庭研究中进行评估。智力价值：该项目将为人与人和人机交互模型及其在促进参与和学习方面的应用做出基本的理论贡献。这项工作还将产生新的见解，了解常识推理如何与大规模数据收集相结合，以开发交互式技术，优雅地处理不一致和噪音，在不受约束的真实世界环境中提供多样化和语义有意义的响应。研究表明，在美国，三分之一的儿童在进入幼儿园时没有做好准备，大多数开始落后的儿童通常会留下来。Cloud Primer将通过利用读者社区来定义一组常见的讨论主题，主动向家长介绍这些主题，并通过简单的触摸界面，为学龄前儿童提供一种让成年人参与讨论的机制，从而抵消这一趋势。 新的上下文和常识感知交互式阅读入门将是对当前数字阅读技术的根本性进步，这些技术在单独使用时既不能有效地实现教育目标，也不支持联合阅读和成人参与。 该项目将通过本科生研究、研究生论文研究、研究生课程开发以及针对妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的外联方案，进一步促进教育。 为了促进这一领域的研究，该项目将把在研究过程中捕获和注释的所有亲子互动数据与Cloud Primer软件一起免费提供给研究界。此外，通过本研究的过程中开发的计算方法将在互动领域的应用超出早期识字，如外语学习。