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

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一个进步的公共空间的某些方面。例如，技术现在允许我们在公共空间中移动时被跟踪、监视、侧写和社交分类。与此同时，有一种感觉是，公共空间已经转移到了其他地方。互联网的兴起和越来越多的数字超连通性导致一些人辩称，现在可以找到公共领域的是虚拟连接网络(而不是物理公共空间)。在这个项目中，我们着手将公共领域重新定义为旨在为公共利益做出贡献的物理互动空间。该项目将加强公共领域作为一个空间，在那里人们可以在适当的隐私和平等条件下进行互动；在这个空间中，接触的社会和经济利益最大化，参与的障碍减少。在这样做的过程中，我们将创造一个‘模型’公共空间，它也将作为一个活的实验室。我们将为生活实验室配备实时跟踪多个人之间的微接触的能力，同时捕获和处理有关不同时间内行为的情感和非语言沟通品质的信息。为了保护隐私而不失去个人交互的关键方面，我们将设计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的协议。这将使我们能够就公共场所的接触能够产生更大的社会凝聚力和融合的条件进行一系列试验。这些实验将利用大量的人类学和心理学文献，研究行为同步性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(步调一致地行进，轻拍/鼓掌，挥手)。我们将使用我们的数字增强的公共空间来得出不同干预措施促进社会凝聚力的有效性的隐含测量(如物理接近、情感音调遥感、生理测量)。作为增加进入公共空间的一种方式，我们还将研究能够以代理形式出现在公共场合的社会和技术方面。特别是，我们将考虑在公共场所安装机器人代理所面临的挑战。我们将探索真实的机器人在野外存在的挑战。我们将调查哪些动作和行为必须从远程用户传输到代理，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，用于了解隐私和匿名性在人与机器人交互中的影响。为了最大限度地发挥研究的影响，我们将与布里斯托尔的I-Share合作。EDD由分水岭(布里斯托尔的一个跨艺术形式的场地和制作人)于2007年建立，目的是产生创造性的技术合作。我们共同设计了一项影响活动计划，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、政策制定者和监管机构以及媒体。

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.