Reading facial expressions from real and virtual humans

该项目旨在促进对人类情感交流的理解，并改善人类与迅速渗透到我们的社交世界中的虚拟人和化身的融洽关系。使用两组独特的刺激--自然主义的人类表情和高度逼真的虚拟面孔--再加上强大的基因、实验和个体差异设计，该项目预计将回答情绪科学中以前难以解决的问题，并带来切实的结果，例如更好地理解人类社会关系的新心理测试。这应该会带来显著的好处，因为它可以改善情感交流，并为人工智能如何最好地服务于人类社交需求提供一个新的视角。

This project aims to advance understanding of human emotional communication and improve human rapport with the virtual humans and avatars that are rapidly infiltrating our social world. Using two unique stimulus sets - naturalistic human expressions and highly realistic virtual faces - together with powerful genetic, experimental, and individual differences designs, the project expects to answer previously intractable questions in emotion science, as well as deliver tangible outcomes, such as new psychological tests to better understand human social connection. This should provide significant benefits, by improving emotion communication and offering a new perspective on how artificial intelligence can best serve human social needs.