Augmented Reality of the Natural World and its Psychological Effects: A Value-Sensitive Design Approach

研究表明，与自然的直接体验对人们的身体、认知和情感健康都有有益的影响。然而，当先进技术加强人与自然的互动时，心理上会发生什么？这个项目以价值敏感设计为基础，代表了回答这个问题的早期、凝聚力和严谨的努力。该项目的核心是五项实证研究。研究1涉及一个房间，它有一个增强的“窗户”视野(一个实时的当地自然场景的视频等离子显示器)。研究2涉及对自然场景的实时增强在心理上是否重要。研究3涉及机器人“宠物”在儿童和青少年生活中的作用。研究4将机器人“宠物”作为老年人的可能伴侣。研究5涉及“远程园艺”(一种远程机器人装置，允许网络用户通过控制远程工业机器人手臂来园艺)。在短期和长期条件下收集了各种不同的生理、行为和社会认知数据。在未来几年，增强现实将成为我们日常生活的一部分，并渗透到建筑、教育、老年学、娱乐和电子商务等不同领域。该项目从伦理的角度对这项新兴技术的设计和使用做出了积极贡献。

Research shows that direct experiences with nature have beneficial effects on people's physical, cognitive, and emotional well-being. Yet what happens psychologically when advanced technologies augment human/nature interactions? Grounded in Value-Sensitive Design, this project represents an early, cohesive, and rigorous effort to answer this question. At the heart of this project lies five empirical studies. Study 1 involves a room with an augmented "window" view (a video plasma display of a real-time local nature scene). Study 2 involves whether it matters psychologically that an augmentation of a natural scene occurs in real-time. Study 3 involves robot "pets" in the lives of children and adolescents. Study 4 involves robot "pets" as possible companions for the elderly. Study 5 involves a "telegarden" (a telerobotic installation that allows Web users to garden by controlling a remote industrial robot arm). A diverse range of physiological, behavioral, and social-cognitive data are collected over short-term and longer-term conditions. In the coming years, augmented reality will become part of our everyday lives, and pervasive across diverse fields, such as architecture, education, gerontology, recreation, and ecommerce. This project contributes proactively to the design and use - from an ethical stance - of this emerging technology.