Expressive behaviour as a social signal for socially-competent human-robot interaction: Expre-ss

表达行为作为具有社交能力的人机交互的社交信号：Express-ss

• 批准号: EP/T013737/1
• 负责人: Ruth Aylett
• 金额: $ 2万
• 依托单位: Heriot-Watt University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT013737%2F1
• 关键词: Expressive; behaviour; social; signal; socially

The travel grant would support work creating mechanisms for embodied social agents that apply theory of mind (ToM) capabilities to the detection and management by the agent of its own modelled affective state and the expressive behaviour it generates as a result. This will support the development of more socially competent agents suitable for a wider range of applications. It flows from work currently being conducted in the project SoCoRo (EP/N034546/1), investigating the use of an expressive robot to help high-functioning adults with autism with social signal processing.Social agents are graphically or robotically embodied entities designed to act competently and successfully in everyday human social environments. These could be homes, schools, workplaces, or more public spaces, like shopping malls and museums. It is well-established that humans impute social agency to such embodied entities and therefore assume competence in the social signals humans use themselves to regulate interaction and to manifest what they feel or think. For this reason, researchers in embodied social agents have long worked on agent expressive behaviour - facial expressions, vocalisations, gestures, posture, both for graphical and robotic agents.Generating expressive behaviour (as distinct from scripting via pre-annotated dialogue items) requires an architecture that can model affective responses. Such an architecture should be based on sound psychological theory, but should move beyond the rather simple idea that the social agent merely expresses its own internal state. A smile can mean very many things other than an internal state of happiness and an employee being dressed down by their boss is unlikely to express the anger they may feel. Social signals are social because they take into account the social context and the impact such signals may make on interaction partners. Social agents that motivate in education, offer support to the elderly, are involved in role-play, in training applications or in therapy all need this capability.The travel grant will support an investigation of generic mechanisms that can be implemented in existing social agent architectures. The applicant will work with leading theorists at University of Geneva and then with the builders of the two leading agent architectures in University of Lisbon and University of Southern California.

旅行补助金将支持为具体的社会代理人创建机制的工作，这些代理人将心理理论（ToM）能力应用于检测和管理其自己的模拟情感状态及其由此产生的表达行为。这将有助于开发适合更广泛应用的更具社会能力的代理人。SoCoRo项目（EP/N 034546/1）是一个研究如何使用表达型机器人来帮助患有自闭症的高功能成年人进行社会信号处理的项目。社会代理是一种图形化或机器人化的实体，旨在在日常人类社会环境中胜任和成功地行动。这些可能是家庭，学校，工作场所，或更多的公共场所，如购物中心和博物馆。众所周知，人类将社会能动性归因于这些具身实体，因此认为人类有能力使用社会信号来调节互动，并表现出他们的感受或想法。基于这个原因，具身社会代理的研究者们长期致力于代理的表达行为--面部表情、发声、手势、姿势，包括图形代理和机器人代理。生成表达行为（不同于通过预先注释的对话项目编写脚本）需要一个可以模拟情感反应的架构。这样的架构应该建立在健全的心理学理论基础上，但应该超越社会主体仅仅表达其自身内部状态的简单想法。除了内心的快乐之外，微笑还可以意味着很多东西，一个被老板训斥的员工不太可能表达他们可能感到的愤怒。社交信号是社交性的，因为它们考虑了社交环境以及这些信号可能对互动伙伴产生的影响。在教育中激励、为老年人提供支持、参与角色扮演、培训应用或治疗的社会代理人都需要这种能力。旅费赠款将支持对可在现有社会代理人架构中实施的通用机制进行调查。申请人将与日内瓦大学的领先理论家合作，然后与里斯本大学和南加州大学的两个领先代理架构的构建者合作。

项目成果

On the privacy of mental health apps: An empirical investigation and its implications for app development.

关于心理健康应用程序的隐私：实证调查及其对应用程序开发的影响。

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-10759-2_2
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Empirical software engineering
• 影响因子: 4.1
• 作者: Iwaya LH

"Sorry to Disturb You"

“对不起，打扰您了”

• DOI: 10.1145/3371382.3378340
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: McKenna P

Real-time simulation of virtual humans' emotional facial expressions, harnessing autonomic physiological and musculoskeletal control

利用自主生理和肌肉骨骼控制实时模拟虚拟人的情绪面部表情

• DOI: 10.1145/3383652.3423904
• 发表时间: 2020
• 作者: Tisserand Y

Living with Robots: What Every Anxious Human Needs to Know

与机器人一起生活：每个焦虑的人都需要知道什么

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Aylett Ruth