CHS: Small: Connecting Across Distances: Remote Tactile Communication

这个项目将扩展基于计算机的触觉的方法和应用，通过调查远程触觉交流如何与其他上下文渠道(如语音)合作，可能促进对高危个人的支持性话语。这项研究通过建立一个试验台来研究迄今尚未探索的人与人之间的计算机辅助感知模式，从而增强了研究和教育的基础设施。它将通过为本科生和研究生提供独特的跨学科教育和学习机会，在促进教学、培训和学习的同时促进科学发展。潜在地，这项新技术将促进人们之间更大的伙伴关系和远距离的情感互动。这将帮助人们理解对方交流的意义，维持有价值的关系，并增进彼此的福祉。将开发一个硬件和软件试验台来研究人机交互的这个子空间，包括触觉模式和参数(例如，压缩、模式和起效动力学)以及触觉刺激和伴随的情景通道之间的时序。输入和输出设备将通过迭代设计开发，并通过以下方式进行评估：(1)可用性和特性研究；(2)实验室内情感沟通研究，包括评估情感传递的单向对照研究和支持的沟通动力学范围的二元沟通研究；(3)活体扩展沟通研究。与一般传播理论的一个联系是，假设触觉交互立即传达影响，而不介入任何明确编码的符号信息。更广泛地说，这项研究将采取跨学科的方法，从每个参与的学科中吸取教训并做出贡献。广泛传播将通过在项目所代表的各个领域的期刊和会议上发表成果和见解来增进对科学技术的了解。所有开发的软件都将以开放源代码的形式共享。

This project will expand the methodologies and applications for computer-based haptics, by investigating how remote tactile communication, functioning in partnership with other contextual channels like speech, may facilitate supportive discourse for at-risk individuals. The research enhances infrastructure for research and education by building a testbed to study a heretofore unexplored mode of computer-assisted perception between people. It will advance science while promoting teaching, training, and learning by providing unique cross-disciplinary educational and learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. Potentially, this new technology will facilitate greater partnership and emotional interaction among people, over long distances. This will help people understand the meaning of the other person's communications, maintain valued relationships, and enhance each other's well-being. It could usher in a new dimension in telecommunications that has significant economic potential.A hardware and software testbed will be developed to study this sub-space of human-computer interaction, including tactile modalities and parameters (e.g., compression, pattern, and onset dynamics) and the timing between a tactile stimulus and the accompanying contextualizing channel. Input and output devices will be developed through iterative design, and evaluated by means of: (1) usability and characterization studies; (2) in-laboratory affective communication studies including a one-way controlled study to assess affect conveyance and a dyadic communication study for the range of communication dynamics supported; (3) in vivo extended communication studies. One connection to general communication theory is the hypothesis that tactile interaction conveys affect immediately without interposing any explicitly coded symbolic message. More generally, this research will take an interdisciplinary approach that draws from and contributes to each participating discipline. Broad dissemination will enhance scientific and technological understanding through publication of results and insights in the journals and conferences of the various fields represented in the project. All software developed will be shared in open source form.