PRoPs and Gesturing Avatars: Embodied Robotic Interfaces

[摘要]canny， john，加州大学伯克利分校116,863美元。道具和手势化身：机器人界面这是一个持续三年的奖项的第一年资助。随着个人电脑的普及和无处不在的网络，计算已经成为一种消费技术。这种增长是由于对一种新型计算的需求：作为通信和信息管理工具的计算机。但由于种种原因，目前还没有一种技术能合理地取代面对面的交流。最终的以计算机为媒介的交流形式是通过机器人代理的远程呈现。通信的许多方面只有通过这种媒介才能实现，对这些能力的精确描述是本项目的主题。该项目在很大程度上依赖于人际心理学和非语言交际学科的概念。前一门学科研究的是人们对交流经历的感知，即他们对他人意图、性格和情绪的感知有多准确。非语言交际研究特定线索的作用，如凝视，手势和姿势，在促进交流经验。在这项研究中，远程机器人被称为个人漫游存在的“道具”。这个名字强调了飞行员和机器人之间的个人联系，机器人不是一个自主的代理，而是飞行员的一种表现（存在）。该项目侧重于工作场所的远程呈现，并在该类别中，侧重于信息（办公室）工作场所和实验室（涉及与对象的更多交互）。需要探索的主要研究问题是：(1)非语言交流线索的生成和控制，特别是凝视和手势等空间化线索的生成和控制；(2)易于直观的导航；(3)情感触觉。需要探索的社会背景是(i)沟通（ii）说服和（iii）建立信任。

Abstract IIS-9978138Canny, JohnUniversity of California - Berkeley $116,863 - 12 mos.PRoPs and Gesturing Avatars: Embodied Robotic InterfacesThis is the first year funding of a three year continuing award. With the spread of personal computers and ubiquitous networking, computing has become a consumer technology. This growth was fed by demand for a new kind of computing: computers as *communication and information management tools*. But for a variety of reasons, nocurrent technology is a reasonable substitute for face-to-face communication. The ultimate computer-mediated communication form is telepresence via a robotic proxy. Many aspects of communication are possible only with this medium, and a precise characterization of those capabilities is the subject of this project. The project reliesheavily on concepts from the disciplines of inter-personal psychology and non-verbal communication. The former discipline deals with people's perception of a communication experience, how accurately they perceived the other person's intention, disposition, andemotions. Non-verbal communication studies the role of particular cues, like gaze, gesture and posture, in contributing to a communication experience. In this research, telerobots are called "PRoPs'' for Personal Roving Presence. The name emphasizes thepersonal connection between the pilot and the robot, and that the robot is not an autonomous agent, but a manifestation (a presence) of its pilot. The project focuses on telepresence in the workplace, and within that category, on informational (office) workplaces and laboratories (which involve more interaction with objects). The mainresearch issues to be explored are: (i) generating and controlling non-verbal communication cues, especially spatialized ones such as gaze and gesturing (ii) easy and intuitive navigation and (iii) affective haptics. The social contexts to be explored are (i)communication (ii) persuasion and (iii) trust-building.