NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institute for FY 2012 in New Zealand

这一行动资助了德克萨斯农工大学的Danielle Nicole Cummings于2012年夏天在新西兰克赖斯特彻奇的坎特伯雷大学开展了一个研究项目，题为《增强人与人之间互动的实时情绪可视化》。主持这项研究的科学家是马克·比林赫斯特博士。该研究项目的智力价值涉及增强现实(AR)和生物信号分类的高度跨学科结合，以创建对人类情绪状态的实时可视化。潜在地，这样的系统可以促进非语言交流，从而改善人类互动。监测和显示一个人或一组人的情绪状态的系统可能会有有用的应用。当无法进行直接交流时，提供识别情绪的视觉线索可以帮助促进团队互动，或者为阅读面部表情和/或肢体语言有困难的人提高基本社交技能。EAPSI奖学金的更广泛影响还包括为研究员提供美国以外的第一手研究经验；介绍各自所在地的科学、科学政策和科学基础设施；以及了解社会、文化和语言。这些活动符合NSF的目标，即在其科学家、工程师和教育工作者的职业生涯早期为国际合作进行教育，从而确保拥有一支具有全球意识的美国科学队伍。

This action funds Danielle Nicole Cummings of Texas A&M University to conduct a research project, entitled "Real-time Emotion Visualization for Enhancing Human-to-Human Interaction," during the summer of 2012 at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The host scientist is Dr. Mark Billinghurst.The Intellectual Merit of the research project involves a highly interdisciplinary combination of Augmented Reality (AR) and Biological Signal Classification in order to create a real-time visualization of the human emotional state. Potentailly such a system could facilitate non-verbal communication and thereby improve human interactions. A system that monitors and displays the emotional state of a person or group of people could have useful applications. Providing visual cues that identify emotions can help facilitate team interaction when direct communication is not possible, or improve basic social skills for people who have difficulty reading facial expressions and/or body language. Broader Impacts of an EAPSI fellowship also include providing the Fellow a first-hand research experience outside the U.S.; an introduction to the science, science policy, and scientific infrastructure of the respective location; and an orientation to the society, culture and language. These activities meet the NSF goal to educate for international collaborations early in the career of its scientists, engineers, and educators, thus ensuring a globally aware U.S. scientific workforce.