CRPA: Communicating Avatars: Artificial Intelligence + Computer Graphics = Innovative Science

CRPA：交流化身：人工智能计算机图形学 = 创新科学

• 批准号: 1138325
• 负责人: Avelino Gonzalez
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138325&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CRPA; Communicating; Avatars; Artificial; Intelligence

This CRPA project will produce a human-like avatar exhibit for the Orlando Science Center that will verbally communicate with middle and high school grade visitors, engaging them in the subjects of computer science, artificial intelligence, and engineering. Human-like characteristics include features to match the demographics of the Center's clientele and verbal communication in the English language. In addition to discussing how avatars are developed and how artificial intelligence works, the avatar image will answer questions from the visitors on selected topics, including subjects from the media models of Avatar and IBM's Watson event on Jeopardy. Considerable planning and research has gone into this project to make sure that the avatar is life-like and can engage in realistic dialog. The avatar images will resemble real individuals who have diverse demographic characteristics in order to enhance the human-computer interface. The system is designed to deal with background noise and antagonistic visitors. Evaluation at all levels (front-end, formative, and summative) will make the exhibit most effective and facilitate the goals of the project which are to inform the target audience on STEM subjects.The desire to have electronic analogs of humans has been a goal for half of a century. This project builds on prior research in this area and is one of the most sophisticated contemporary models in the field. It is anticipated that this work may contribute to future applications in education and assistance for individuals with disabilities. Moreover, engagement with the avatar may ignite curiosity among young visitors and stimulate interest in science careers.

这个CRPA项目将为奥兰多科学中心制作一个类似人类的化身展览，将与初中和高中年级的参观者进行口头交流，让他们参与到计算机科学、人工智能和工程学的科目中来。与人类相似的特征包括与中心客户的人口统计相匹配的特征以及用英语进行口头交流。除了讨论阿凡达是如何开发的以及人工智能是如何工作的，阿凡达形象还将回答参观者就选定主题提出的问题，包括阿凡达媒体模型和IBM在Jeopardy上的Watson活动的主题。这个项目已经进行了大量的规划和研究，以确保化身栩栩如生，并能够进行逼真的对话。化身图像将与具有不同人口统计特征的真实个人相似，以增强人机界面。该系统旨在应对背景噪音和敌对的访客。所有级别的评估(前端、形成性和终结性)将使展览最有效，并促进项目的目标，即向目标受众提供关于STEM主题的信息。半个世纪以来，拥有人类电子模拟的愿望一直是一个目标。该项目建立在这一领域的先前研究基础上，是该领域最复杂的当代模型之一。预计这项工作将有助于今后在教育和帮助残疾人方面的应用。此外，与阿凡达的互动可能会点燃年轻游客的好奇心，激发人们对科学事业的兴趣。