SGER: Tele-Embodiment: A Project Joining Robotics, HCI, and Social Psychology

该项目解决了将电信和电子协作扩展到更普遍的“远距离活动”以及物理和社会（相对于虚拟和个人）空间的科学挑战。面对面的访问和电信体验之间显然是有区别的。这个项目将尝试理解这种差异并减少它，使用和试验被称为个人机器人存在（PRoPs）的机器人技术：人类在其他人占据的真实空间中的代理。这样的机器人远程呈现不需要具有拟人化的形式，但它可能需要一组合理的交互功能。因此，这个项目将寻求更好地理解扩展的人际互动的社会和心理方面。PRoPs是研究计算机和机器人介导的人类互动的一个很好的平台，因为它们在物理和社会空间中操作，并且可以与一群人互动。这种社会背景鲜明地强调了这项工作与许多人机交互研究之间的差异。这项工作的结果有望提高我们对现实社会和物理空间中由计算机和机器人设备介导的物理和社会互动的理解，而不仅仅是虚拟空间。http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/

This project addresses the scientific challenges of extending telecommunication and electronic collaboration to more general "activity at a distance" and into physical and social (in contrast to virtual and individual) spaces. There is clearly a difference between an in-person visit and a telecommunication experience. This project will attempt to understand this difference and to reduce it, using and experimenting with robotic technologies called Personal Robot Presences (PRoPs): human proxies in real spaces occupied by other people. Such a robotic telepresence need not have an anthropomorphic form, but it may need a reasonable set of capabilities for interaction. Consequently, this project will seek to better understand the social and psychological aspects of extended human-human interaction. PRoPs are an excellent platform for studying computer- and robot-mediated human interaction because they operate in physical and social spaces, and can interact with a group of people. This social context sharply underlines the difference between this work and many studies of human-machine interactions. the results of this work are expected to improve our understanding of physical and social interactions that are mediated by computer and robotic devices in real social and physical space, not simply virtual spaces. http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jfc/