CHS: Small: Rethinking Haptic-Based Remote Communication Leveraging the DeafBlind Community's Tactile Intuitions

CHS：小：重新思考利用聋盲人群体的触觉直觉的基于触觉的远程通信

基本信息

批准号：
1909121
负责人：
Jenna Gorlewicz
金额：
$ 20万
依托单位：
Saint Louis University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2020
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2020-01-01 至 2024-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1909121&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CHS Small Rethinking Haptic Based

项目摘要

How would persons with 2 sensory losses - vision and hearing - communicate? They have to rely on another sense for that - touch. In contrast, the current environment is saturated with communication technologies that are skewed toward the visual and auditory channels. Individuals talk on mobile phones, chat via video conferencing, or message through various texting applications. Without being physically present with one another, individuals can connect in a variety of ways. Despite advances in new technologies, rich touch feedback is largely missing in remote communication tools. Most often, touch feedback is used as a cueing mechanism such as through vibrations that alert the user about the arrival of a message but convey little of its content. The omission of touch feedback prevents many new technologies from capturing the social and emotional dimensions of the experience and leaves new technologies inaccessible to those who rely on touch as a primary means of communication. This project rethinks touch-based, remote communication by leveraging the tactile intuitions of the protactile DeafBlind (DB) community. From this innovative community, a new language is emerging that enables humans to communicate with one another solely through touch. This project, in partnership with the DB community, aims to understand the core functions of intuitive, touch-based communication signals. Findings will inform the design of new wearable devices that attempt to replicate these touch-based profiles for richer remote communication experiences for all individuals. The research goals of this project are to (a) understand how core components of local and remote interaction can be re-routed through the tactile sensory channel and (b) design technology which will support such re-routings by expanding and reinforcing the tactile capacities of its users. To accomplish these aims, anthropological approaches to communication are synthesized with engineering to drive the design of a wearable haptic device that enables core functions of communication via tactile feedback. Using rapid ethnography coupled with haptic systems design, this work will establish guidelines for tactile-based communication schemes while creating a platform from which independent remote communication among DB individuals can evolve and richer communication experiences for all individuals are possible. This project will increase the general understanding of the tactile channel as a primary mode of communication. It will also advance understanding of human abilities to communicate in multimodal ways, promoting optimal information transfer when all senses are available and promoting higher standards for access of information when sensory differences exist.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

有2个感官损失的人如何交流 - 视力和听力 - 如何交流？他们必须依靠另一种感觉 - 触摸。相反，当前的环境充满了通信技术，这些通信技术偏向于视觉和听觉渠道。个人在手机上交谈，通过视频会议聊天或通过各种短信应用程序发送消息。如果不在身体上彼此展示，个人可以通过多种方式进行联系。尽管新技术取得了进步，但在远程通信工具中，丰富的触摸反馈在很大程度上却缺少。大多数情况下，触摸反馈用作提示机制，例如通过振动来提醒用户消息的到来，但很少传达其内容。省略反馈的省略阻止了许多新技术捕捉经验的社会和情感维度，并使那些依靠触摸作为主要交流手段的人无法访问新技术。该项目通过利用Protactile Deafblind（DB）社区的触觉直觉来重新考虑基于触摸的远程通信。从这个创新的社区中，一种新的语言正在出现，使人类仅通过触摸就可以相互交流。该项目与DB社区合作，旨在了解直观的，基于触摸的通信信号的核心功能。调查结果将为新的可穿戴设备的设计提供信息，这些设备试图复制这些基于触摸的配置文件，以供所有个人提供丰富的远程沟通体验。该项目的研究目标是（a）了解如何通过触觉感官渠道重新分组本地和远程互动的核心组成部分，以及（b）设计技术，该技术将通过扩大和增强其用户的触觉能力来支持这种重新分组。为了实现这些目标，人类学的交流方法与工程合成，以驱动可穿戴触觉设备的设计，该设备可以通过触觉反馈来实现通信的核心功能。使用快速的民族志与触觉系统设计的快速人种志，这项工作将为基于触觉的通信方案建立准则，同时创建一个平台，从该平台中，DB个人之间的独立远程交流可以发展为所有个人，并且可以为所有个人提供更丰富的沟通经验。该项目将增加对触觉渠道作为主要交流方式的一般理解。它还将提高人们对人类以多模式交流的能力的理解，在所有感官都可以使用时促进最佳信息传输，并在存在感官差异时促进更高的标准以获取信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的审查审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。