Public Engagement with Robotics, Animatronics and Artificial Intelligence

公众参与机器人、电子动画和人工智能

• 批准号: EP/F026080/1
• 负责人: Alan Winfield
• 金额: $ 6.27万
• 依托单位: University of the West of England
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2008 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FF026080%2F1
• 关键词: Public; Engagement; Robotics; Animatronics; Artificial

Robotics, Animatronics and Artificial Intelligence are ideal vehicles for building public engagement in science, engineering and technology; they are subjects that are intrinsically compelling and engaging.A major step needed to achieve effective engagement with the contemporary issues in these areas is the building of the required skills and relationships amongst the scientists and engineers, and the facilitators and deliverers of events. However, engineers have identified the need to spend more time on research as a major drawback for engaging with the public , so finding the time to develop these skills and produce high quality public engagement activities is difficult.In September 2007 an EPSRC stage award funded the 3-year Walking with Robots (WWR) programme to provide support for those in robotics and related research to deliver public engagement events. However, in order to deliver innovative public engagement activities based on their research, WWR network members must seek additional funding from external bodies (e.g. industry, government, charities and learned institutions). WWR is now a continually expanding network of engineering researchers and public engagement experts. Over the last eight months the WWR has had a considerable amount of success in running a number of small-scale, repeatable activities as they involve a more achievable commitment for the majority of active researchers in this field.This project will devise and run a residential workshop with the aim of efficiently developing a number of these small activities, at the same time as strengthening the public engagement skills of both existing WWR network members and new researchers.* Over the course of a 3-day workshop, participants will experience the lifecycle of a public engagement event from conception through delivery to evaluation. The running of the workshop in such a condensed format seeks to reduce a prolonged pressure on research time in order to devise and deliver a reusable public engagement activity under the theme of Robotics, Animatronics and Artificial Intelligence. * The delivery phase of the project will capitalise on the momentum such a workshop will generate the applicants seek to use the output of the workshop at a number of science festivals during 2008. The festivals have been deliberately chosen as they have large numbers of attendees and are spread both geographically and over time. This means that regardless of the location of the researcher they should be able to attend a festival.

机器人、电子动画和人工智能是促进公众参与科学、工程和技术的理想工具；它们是本质上引人注目且引人入胜的主题。要有效地解决这些领域的当代问题，需要采取的一个重要步骤是在科学家和工程师以及活动的促进者和提供者之间建立所需的技能和关系。然而，工程师们已经发现，需要花费更多时间进行研究是与公众互动的一个主要缺点，因此找到时间来发展这些技能并开展高质量的公众参与活动是很困难的。2007 年 9 月，EPSRC 阶段奖资助了为期 3 年的“与机器人同行”(WWR) 计划，为机器人技术和相关研究领域的人员提供公众参与活动的支持。然而，为了开展基于其研究的创新型公众参与活动，WWR 网络成员必须从外部机构（例如行业、政府、慈善机构和学术机构）寻求额外资金。 WWR 现在是一个不断扩大的工程研究人员和公众参与专家网络。在过去的八个月里，WWR 在开展一些小规模、可重复的活动方面取得了相当大的成功，因为这些活动涉及该领域大多数活跃研究人员更容易实现的承诺。该项目将设计并举办一个住宅研讨会，旨在有效地开展许多此类小型活动，同时加强现有 WWR 网络成员和新研究人员的公众参与技能。*在为期 3 天的课程中 在研讨会上，参与者将体验公众参与活动从构思到交付再到评估的整个生命周期。以如此紧凑的形式举办研讨会旨在减少研究时间的长期压力，以便在机器人、动画电子学和人工智能的主题下设计和提供可重复使用的公众参与活动。 * 该项目的交付阶段将利用研讨会的势头，使申请者寻求在 2008 年期间的许多科学节上使用研讨会的成果。这些科学节是经过精心选择的，因为它们有大量的参加者，并且在地理上和时间上都分布。这意味着无论研究人员身在何处，他们都应该能够参加节日。