Digital Personhood:Being There: Humans and Robots in Public Spaces (HARPS)

数字人格：在那里：公共空间中的人类和机器人（HARPS）

• 批准号: EP/L00416X/1
• 负责人: Mark Levine
• 金额: $ 260.49万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FL00416X%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; Personhood; Being; There; Humans

A vibrant, open and inclusive public space is central to the social and economic health of society. However, developments in digital technology have begun to undermine some aspects of a progressive public space. For example, technologies now allow us to be tracked, surveilled, profiled and socially sorted as we move through public space. At the same time there is a sense that public space has moved elsewhere. The rise of the internet and increasing digital hyperconnectivity has led some to argue that virtual connected networks (rather than physical public space) are where the public realm can now be found. In this project, we set out to reclaim the public realm as a physical space for interaction designed to contribute to the public good. The project will enhance the public realm as a space where people can interact under the appropriate conditions of privacy and equality; where the social and economic benefits of contact are maximised, and where barriers to participation are reduced. In doing so we will create a 'model' public space that will also function as a living laboratory. We will equip the living lab with the capacity to track micro-contacts between multiple individuals in real time, and at the same time to capture and process information about the emotional and nonverbal communicative qualities of behaviours across time. In order to preserve privacy without losing critical aspects of personal interactivity we will design protocols which combine data minimization and decentralized data storage with the consensual sharing of information. This will allow us to conduct a series of experiments on the conditions under which contact in public places can produce greater social cohesion and integration. These experiments will draw on the extensive anthropological and psychological literature for the importance of behavioural synchrony for social cohesion and community relations. We will use techniques to manipulate synchronous (and asynchronous) rhythmic behavioural engagement in the public space (marching in step, tapping/clapping, waving). We will use our digitally augmented public space to derive implicit measures (such as physical proximity, remote sensing of emotional tone, physiological measures) of the effectiveness of different interventions for promoting social cohesion. As a way of increasing access to public space we will also examine the social and technological aspects of being able to appear in public in proxy forms. In particular we will consider the challenges of having robot proxies in public spaces. We will explore the challenges of veridical robot presence 'in the wild'. We will investigate what motions and behaviours must be transferred to the proxy from the remote user, and synchronised with speech, to enable interactions. We will also conduct experiments which explore challenges around understanding trust in social settings inhabited by shared proxies. Finally, we will develop a framework for understanding the impact of privacy and anonymity in human-robot interactions.In order to maximise the impact of the research we will engage in partnership with i-Shed in Bristol. iShed was established by Watershed (a cross artform venue and producer based in Bristol) in 2007 to produce creative technology collaborations. Together we have designed a program of impact activities to engage with creative economy SME's and micro-companies as well as artists and community representatives. Through the creation of public space events we will also seek to make an impact on public space policy and practice including governments, policy makers and regulatory bodies as well as the media.

一个充满活力、开放和包容的公共空间对社会的社会和经济健康至关重要。然而，数字技术的发展已经开始破坏进步的公共空间的某些方面。例如，现在的技术允许我们在公共空间活动时被跟踪、监视、侧写和社会分类。与此同时，有一种感觉，公共空间已经转移到其他地方。互联网的兴起和日益增长的数字超连接使得一些人认为，现在可以找到公共领域的地方是虚拟连接网络（而不是物理公共空间）。在这个项目中，我们着手将公共领域作为一个物理空间进行互动，旨在为公共利益做出贡献。该项目将加强公共领域，使其成为人们可以在隐私和平等的适当条件下互动的空间；在接触的社会和经济效益最大化的地方，在参与障碍减少的地方。在此过程中，我们将创建一个“模型”公共空间，同时也将作为一个生活实验室。我们将为生活实验室配备实时跟踪多个个体之间微接触的能力，同时捕捉和处理有关行为的情感和非语言交际品质的信息。为了保护隐私而不失去个人交互性的关键方面，我们将设计协议，将数据最小化和分散数据存储与双方同意的信息共享相结合。这将允许我们进行一系列的实验，在公共场所的接触可以产生更大的社会凝聚力和融合的条件。这些实验将利用广泛的人类学和心理学文献来说明行为同步对社会凝聚力和社区关系的重要性。我们将使用技术来操纵公共空间中同步（和异步）有节奏的行为参与（步调一致，拍打/鼓掌，挥手）。我们将利用数字增强的公共空间，推导出不同干预措施在促进社会凝聚力方面的有效性的隐含测量（如物理接近、情感基调的遥感、生理测量）。作为一种增加进入公共空间的方式，我们还将研究能够以代理形式出现在公共场所的社会和技术方面。特别是，我们将考虑在公共场所使用机器人代理的挑战。我们将探索“在野外”真实机器人存在的挑战。我们将研究哪些动作和行为必须从远程用户转移到代理，并与语音同步，以实现交互。我们还将进行实验，探索在共享代理居住的社会环境中理解信任的挑战。最后，我们将开发一个框架来理解隐私和匿名在人机交互中的影响。为了使研究的影响最大化，我们将与布里斯托尔的i-Shed合作。2007年，Watershed（一家位于布里斯托尔的跨艺术场地和制作人）成立了ish，旨在开展创意技术合作。我们共同设计了一个影响活动项目，与创意经济中小企业和微型公司以及艺术家和社区代表进行接触。通过创建公共空间活动，我们还将寻求对公共空间政策和实践产生影响，包括政府、决策者、监管机构以及媒体。

项目成果

Evaluating a mobile spontaneous eye blink tracker for use in tele-presence HRI as a low bandwidth social communicative cue

评估用于远程呈现 HRI 的移动自发眨眼跟踪器作为低带宽社交沟通提示

• DOI: 10.1109/roman.2016.7745182
• 发表时间: 2016
• 作者: Bevan C

Distortion Rejecting Magneto-Inductive Three-Dimensional Localization (MagLoc)

• DOI: 10.1109/jsac.2015.2430518
• 发表时间: 2015-11-01
• 期刊: IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS
• 影响因子: 16.4
• 作者: Abrudan, Traian E.;Xiao, Zhuoling;Trigoni, Niki
• 通讯作者: Trigoni, Niki

Underground Incrementally Deployed Magneto-Inductive 3-D Positioning Network

• DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2016.2540722
• 发表时间: 2016-08-01
• 期刊: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING
• 影响因子: 8.2
• 作者: Abrudan, Traian E.;Xiao, Zhuoling;Trigoni, Niki
• 通讯作者: Trigoni, Niki

Personality Perception of Robot Avatar Teleoperators in Solo and Dyadic Tasks

机器人化身远程操作员在单独和二元任务中的人格感知

• DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2017.00016
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: Frontiers in Robotics and AI
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Bremner P

Wi-Fi internet connectivity and privacy: Hiding your tracks on the wireless Internet

Wi-Fi 互联网连接和隐私：在无线互联网上隐藏您的踪迹

• DOI: 10.1109/cscn.2015.7390443
• 发表时间: 2015
• 作者: Bernardos C