REU Site: The Face and Mind of Artificial Intelligence

这个本科生研究体验（REU）网站将每年夏天在南加州大学创意技术研究所吸引10名本科生，这是一个独特的多学科研究社区，将计算机科学，心理学，通信，电影艺术和医学领域的领先学术研究人员与好莱坞和视频游戏行业的创意人才相结合。参与者将沉浸在合作研究团队中，专注于该研究所的智能交互体验核心主题，并在自然语言对话，情感计算，智能人类感知，认知架构和学习科学方面开展具体项目。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。这些研究项目将推进创造智能交互体验的最新技术，在自然语言对话，情感计算，智能人类感知，认知架构和学习科学领域做出具体贡献。研究人员开发的技术和技术创造了引人注目的合成环境和角色，与广泛的应用领域直接相关，包括培训，教育，康复，医学和娱乐。本科生参与强调跨学科研究的夏季体验将扩大代表性不足的人口在计算方面的参与，并向本科生介绍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，从而增加计算机博士课程的入学率和保留率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site will 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 with the creative talents of Hollywood and the video game industry. Participants will be immersed in collaborative research teams focused on the institute's core theme of intelligent interactive experiences, with specific projects in natural language dialogue, affective computing, intelligent human perception, cognitive architecture, and learning sciences. These activities will be combined with weekly interactive seminars for training in best research practices, mentorship support, and peer feedback. The research projects will advance the state of the art for creating intelligent interactive experiences, with specific contributions in the areas of natural language dialogue, affective computing, intelligent human perception, cognitive architecture, and learning sciences. The techniques and technologies developed by the researchers create compelling synthetic environments and characters with immediate relevance to a broad range of application domains including training, education, rehabilitation, medicine, and entertainment. Engagement of undergraduate students in summer experiences that emphasize interdisciplinary research will broaden participation from underrepresented populations in computing and introduce 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.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.