HCC: Medium: Collaborative Research: Computational Analysis of Nonverbal Behavior in Adaptive Tutoring

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。这个项目的目标是开发在面对面教学中观察到的非语言行为和互动策略的计算模型。这些计算模型将作为新一代具身教学代理的基础，它将近似于面对面的人类教学的好处。该项目将在多个时间尺度上提高我们对教学中非语言行为动态的理解，从而有助于推进学习和教学科学：从几十毫秒时间尺度上的低级微表情，到秒时间尺度上的认知和情感过程，再到更长的时间尺度上的高级战略行为。除了其科学和技术价值外，该项目还具有重要的外联组成部分。该项目将有助于加强研究型校园（UCSD）和本科教学型大学（SDSU）之间的联系。该项目的机器人方面将与普鲁斯学校机器人俱乐部合作开发。普鲁斯学校是一所特许学校，招收6-12年级的低收入学生，目前被评为全国顶尖高中之一。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The goal of this project is to develop computational models of the nonverbal behavior and interactive strategies observed during face-to-face teaching. These computational models will serve as a foundation for a new generation of embodied teaching agents that approximate the benefits of face-to-face human tutoring. The project will help advance the science of learning and teaching by improving our understanding of the dynamics of nonverbal behavior in teaching at a computational level, across multiple time scales: From low-level micro-expressions in the timescale of tens of milliseconds, to cognitive and affective processes with time scales of seconds, to higher level strategic behaviors operating at longer time scales. In addition to its scientific and technological value, this project has a significant outreach component. The project would help grow links between a research oriented campus (UCSD) an undergraduate teaching university (SDSU). The robotics aspects of the project will be developed in collaboration with the Preuss School Robotics Club. The Preuss School is a charter school for low-income students in grades 6-12 and is currently ranked as one of the top high schools in the nation.