CHS: Small: Connecting Across Distances: Remote Tactile Communication

CHS：小型：远距离连接：远程触觉通信

• 批准号: 1619291
• 负责人: Francis Quek
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1619291&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Small; Connecting; Across; Distances

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.

该项目将扩大基于计算机的触觉的方法和应用，通过调查如何远程触觉通信，与其他上下文渠道，如语音合作，可以促进支持性话语的风险个人。这项研究通过建立一个试验平台来研究迄今为止尚未探索的人与人之间的计算机辅助感知模式，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，在促进教学，培训和学习的同时推进科学。这项新技术可能会促进人们之间的远距离伙伴关系和情感互动。这将有助于人们理解对方的通信的意义，保持有价值的关系，并提高彼此的福祉。它可以在电信领域开创一个新的维度，具有巨大的经济潜力。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、模式和起始动态）以及触觉刺激和伴随的情境化通道之间的定时。将通过迭代设计开发输入和输出设备，并通过以下方式进行评价：（1）可用性和表征研究;（2）实验室内情感沟通研究，包括评估情感传递的单向对照研究和支持沟通动力学范围的二元沟通研究;（3）体内扩展沟通研究。 与一般传播理论的一个联系是，触觉交互可以立即传达情感，而不需要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，借鉴和促进每个参与学科。 广泛传播将通过在该项目所代表的各个领域的期刊和会议上发表成果和见解来加强对科学和技术的了解。所有开发的软件都将以开源形式共享。