REU Site: Research in Interactive Virtual Experiences

本研究经验的本科生（REU）网站更新的目标是每年夏天在南加州的创意技术研究所，一个独特的多学科研究社区，结合了领先的学术研究人员在计算机科学，心理学，通信，电影艺术和医学大学从事10名本科生。参与者将沉浸在合作研究团队中，专注于该研究所的交互式虚拟体验核心主题，并在虚拟现实，叙事，虚拟人，自然语言对话和图形等领域开展具体项目。这些活动将与每周互动研讨会相结合，以培训最佳研究实践，导师支持和同行反馈。 研究人员开发的技术和技术推动了引人注目的合成环境和角色的创建，这些环境和角色与广泛的应用领域直接相关，包括培训，教育，康复和医学。本科生将参与强调跨学科研究的夏季体验，其目标是扩大计算中代表性不足的人群的参与，并使本科生获得科学和工程研究生课程的机会。这一努力有可能为本科生进行独立研究做好准备，从而增加计算博士课程的入学率和保留率。

The objective of this Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site renewal is to engage 10 undergraduate students per summer at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies, a unique multidisciplinary research community that combines leading academic researchers in computer science, psychology, communications, cinematic arts, and medicine. Participants will be immersed in collaborative research teams focused on the institute's core theme of interactive virtual experiences, with specific projects in areas such as virtual reality, narrative, virtual humans, natural language dialogue, and graphics. These activities will be combined with weekly interactive seminars for training in best research practices, mentorship support, and peer feedback. The techniques and technologies developed by the researchers drive the creation of compelling synthetic environments and characters with immediate relevance to a broad range of application domains including training, education, rehabilitation, and medicine. The undergraduate students will become engaged in summer experiences that emphasize interdisciplinary research, with the goals of broadening participation from underrepresented populations in computing and exposing undergraduate students to opportunities in science and engineering graduate programs. This effort has the potential to prepare undergraduates to perform independent research, thereby increasing enrollment and retention in computing doctoral programs.