CAREER:The Uncanny Valley in Socially Appropriate Haptic Interactions

职业：社交适宜触觉交互中的恐怖谷

• 批准号: 2047867
• 负责人: Heather Culbertson
• 金额: $ 54.96万
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2047867&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Uncanny; Valley; Socially; Appropriate

Social touch is a natural mode of communication between humans that can help maintain relationships, communicates emotions, and directly reflects physical and psychological closeness between individuals. The importance of social touch is becoming more evident as the time humans spend communicating through computers in videoconferencing, email, and text messaging increases. Social distancing guidelines required by the recent pandemic has exacerbated this issue, leading many individuals to suffer the negative effects of a lack of human touch. Without the depth and subtlety of in-person communication, remote communication causes increased feelings of loneliness and social isolation, which can have a significant impact on mental and physical health. Although prior work has created haptic devices for displaying virtual social touch, limited work has explored the acceptability of these virtual touch sensations or the role they play in virtual social interactions. The hypothesis of this research is that, as in the appearance of robots, there exist haptic sensations that produce a sensation of disgust or revulsion in the user due to a mismatch between the user's expectation (human social touch) and reality (touch from the device), creating a haptic “uncanny valley”. The goal of this research is to explore and define the uncanny valley for haptic interactions, specifically as it relates to defining appropriate and comfortable virtual social touch.This project will seek to uncover instances of virtual touch that produce feelings of disgust or revulsion in users due to a mismatch between the user's expectation and reality. Through a series of human subject studies, this work will define the parameters of the haptic uncanny valley for social touch in a set of three scenarios: (1) touch through haptic devices; (2) touch and visual representation with virtual reality; (3) touch and physical embodiment with a humanoid robot. The project will evaluate actuators, materials, control patterns, visual input, and physical embodiment for their role in the comfort of the user. By determining the existence of and parameters for the uncanny valley for social touch, this project will inform the design of future social touch systems in haptics, robotics, and virtual reality. The outcomes of this research will create design guidelines for haptics, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) designers creating physical social systems, allowing them to avoid designs that lie in the uncanny valley to create interactions that are pleasant, immersive, and socially appropriate.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.

社交接触是人类之间的一种自然沟通方式，可以帮助维持关系，交流情感，并直接反映个体之间的身体和心理亲密度。随着人们通过计算机进行视频会议、电子邮件和短信交流的时间越来越多，社交接触的重要性变得越来越明显。最近的大流行所要求的社交距离准则加剧了这一问题，导致许多人遭受缺乏人情味的负面影响。如果没有面对面交流的深度和微妙性，远程交流会增加孤独感和社会孤立感，这会对身心健康产生重大影响。虽然先前的工作已经创建了触觉设备，用于显示虚拟的社会触摸，有限的工作已经探索了这些虚拟的触觉感觉的可接受性或它们在虚拟的社会互动中发挥的作用。这项研究的假设是，在机器人的外观，存在触觉，产生厌恶或反感的感觉在用户由于用户的期望（人类的社会触摸）和现实（触摸从设备）之间的不匹配，创建一个触觉“恐怖谷”。本研究的目标是探索和定义触觉交互的神秘谷，特别是当它涉及到定义适当的和舒适的虚拟社交触摸时，本项目将寻求发现由于用户的期望和现实之间的不匹配而导致用户产生厌恶或反感的虚拟触摸的实例。通过一系列的人类主题的研究，这项工作将定义的参数的触觉神秘谷社交触摸在一组三个场景：（1）通过触觉设备触摸;（2）触摸和视觉表示与虚拟现实;（3）触摸和物理体现与人形机器人。该项目将评估致动器，材料，控制模式，视觉输入和物理体现在用户的舒适度中的作用。通过确定社会触摸的神秘谷的存在和参数，该项目将为触觉，机器人和虚拟现实中未来社会触摸系统的设计提供信息。这项研究的成果将为触觉，人机交互（HCI）和人机交互（HRI）设计师创建物理社会系统创建设计指南，使他们能够避免设计位于神秘谷，以创建愉快，沉浸式，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

项目成果

The Importance of Contextual Grounding in Affective Mediated Touch

情境基础在情感中介触摸中的重要性

• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: IEEE Haptics Symposium
• 作者: Zhu, Xin;Su, Zhenghui Su;Tsai, Jocelyn;Nunez, Cara M.;Culbertson, Heather
• 通讯作者: Culbertson, Heather

Vocalization for Emotional Communication in Crossmodal Affective Display

跨模态情感显示中情感交流的发声

• DOI: 10.1109/aciiw59127.2023.10388113
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW
• 作者: Jalapati, Pranavi;Sweidan, Selwa;Zhu, Xin;Culbertson, Heather
• 通讯作者: Culbertson, Heather

Understanding the Effect of Speed on Human Emotion Perception in Mediated Social Touch Using Voice Coil Actuators

• DOI: 10.3389/fcomp.2022.826637
• 发表时间: 2022-03
• 作者: Xin Zhu;Tiantian Feng;Heather Culbertson

Wearable System for Generating Mediated Social Touch through Force Mapping

通过力图生成中介社交接触的可穿戴系统

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: IEEE World Haptics Conference Hands-On Demonstrations
• 作者: Zhu, Xin;Feng, Tiantian;Culbertson, Heather
• 通讯作者: Culbertson, Heather