Using artificial intelligence to develop joint attention in blind children

这项研究的目的是探索如何利用这种技术来增强视障儿童对空间-社会关系的认识和理解。研究的目标是制定定量和定性措施，帮助指导这一包容性技术的持续发展。研究项目的重点是东京项目和布里斯托互动集团之间的合作。微软的东京项目正在努力创建可视化代理技术。该项目与盲人或低视力者密切合作，以便在深入了解使用该技术并从中受益的个人的基础上开发该技术。这项研究计划将探讨如何以最有效的方式使用这项技术，以协助盲童发展社交技巧。研究将探讨如何将这项技术用作视觉注意力模拟，让儿童能够发展对他人注意力模式的认识和理解，并将其嵌入空间-社会关系中。该研究项目的重点将是长期评估和进一步发展社会互动技术。它还将探索新的指标和评价技术，用于小群体的评价。该项目符合布里斯托互动集团更广泛的研究议程，调查设计，开发和评估的包容性技术，为残疾人和非残疾人。

The aim of the research is to explore how such technology might be used to empower visually impaired children to develop awareness and understanding of spatial-social relationships. The goal of the research is to develop quantitative and qualitative measures that help guide the ongoing development of this inclusive technology.The research project is focused on the collaboration between project Tokyo and the Bristol Interactive Group. Microsoft's project Tokyo is working to create visual agent technology. The project works closely with people who are blind or have low vision so that the technology can be developed based on an in-depth understanding of the individuals using and benefiting from its use. This research project would explore how this technology can be used in the most effective way to support blind children to develop their social skills.The research will explore how such technology might be used as a visual attention analogue, enabling children to develop awareness, and understanding of others' attentional patterns and their embedding in spatio-social relationships. The focus of the research project will be directed towards long-term evaluation and further development of social interaction technologies. It will also explore novel metrics and evaluation techniques for evaluation with small populations. The project fits within Bristol Interaction group broader research agenda of investigating the design, development, and evaluation of inclusive technologies for people with and without disabilities.