CHS: Small: Connecting Across Distances: Remote Tactile Communication

这个项目将扩展计算机触觉学的方法和应用，通过研究远程触觉交流如何与其他语境渠道（如语音）合作，促进对高危个体的支持性话语。该研究通过建立一个测试平台来研究迄今为止尚未开发的计算机辅助人与人之间的感知模式，从而增强了研究和教育的基础设施。它将通过为本科生和研究生提供独特的跨学科教育和学习机会，促进科学发展，同时促进教学、培训和学习。这项新技术可能会促进人与人之间的远距离合作和情感互动。这将有助于人们理解对方沟通的含义，维持有价值的关系，并增强彼此的幸福感。它将引领电信行业进入一个具有巨大经济潜力的新维度。将开发一个硬件和软件测试平台来研究人机交互的这个子空间，包括触觉模式和参数（例如，压缩、模式和开始动态）以及触觉刺激和伴随的情境化通道之间的时间。输入和输出设备将通过迭代设计开发，并通过以下方式进行评估：(1)可用性和特性研究；(2)实验室情感交流研究，包括评估情感传递的单向对照研究和支持交流动态范围的二元交流研究；(3)体内扩展传播研究。与一般交流理论的一个联系是，假设触觉互动可以立即传达情感，而无需插入任何明确编码的符号信息。更一般地说，这项研究将采取跨学科的方法，从每个参与的学科中汲取并作出贡献。通过在项目所代表的各个领域的期刊和会议上发表成果和见解，广泛传播将增进对科学和技术的了解。所有开发的软件都将以开源的形式共享。

This project will expand the methodologies and applications for computer-based haptics, by investigating how remote tactile communication, functioning in partnership with other contextual channels like speech, may facilitate supportive discourse for at-risk individuals. The research enhances infrastructure for research and education by building a testbed to study a heretofore unexplored mode of computer-assisted perception between people. It will advance science while promoting teaching, training, and learning by providing unique cross-disciplinary educational and learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Potentially, this new technology will facilitate greater partnership and emotional interaction among people, over long distances. This will help people understand the meaning of the other person's communications, maintain valued relationships, and enhance each other's well-being. It could usher in a new dimension in telecommunications that has significant economic potential.A hardware and software testbed will be developed to study this sub-space of human-computer interaction, including tactile modalities and parameters (e.g., compression, pattern, and onset dynamics) and the timing between a tactile stimulus and the accompanying contextualizing channel. Input and output devices will be developed through iterative design, and evaluated by means of: (1) usability and characterization studies; (2) in-laboratory affective communication studies including a one-way controlled study to assess affect conveyance and a dyadic communication study for the range of communication dynamics supported; (3) in vivo extended communication studies. One connection to general communication theory is the hypothesis that tactile interaction conveys affect immediately without interposing any explicitly coded symbolic message. More generally, this research will take an interdisciplinary approach that draws from and contributes to each participating discipline. Broad dissemination will enhance scientific and technological understanding through publication of results and insights in the journals and conferences of the various fields represented in the project. All software developed will be shared in open source form.