SFB 1410: Hybrid Societies: Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies

数字技术获得了自主性，并以各种物理形式在越来越多的地方与人类见面，例如自动驾驶车辆、机器人和无人机，但也作为化身和其他具有虚拟身体的智能代理。数字技术也确实更频繁地与人体连接，例如数字增强假肢、外骨骼和虚拟现实护目镜。这些技术是具体化数字技术(EDT)。自主行动的EDT和共享真实或虚拟环境的人类，以及佩戴EDT或操作人造身体的人类创造了混合社会。为了在混合社会中高效和顺利地互动，人类的能力和技术可能性必须以特定的重点进行分析，并以新颖的方式进行匹配。为此，社会科学、人文科学和工程学科必须联合起来。在开姆尼茨理工大学，这些学科在人机交互方面的协作研究格外强大。CRC混合社会围绕心理学核心汇集了当地的专业知识，并创建了一个国际实证调查、分析和发展中心，这是确保生物和合成机构在即将到来的混合社会中最有利的共存所迫切需要的。CRC的两个主要研究问题是：需要什么才能使人类与EDT像与同种生物一样顺利地协调？以及：如何设计EDT以满足这些要求？为了在共享环境中顺利协调，人类和EDT双方都需要感知互动伙伴的一般能力和特定情况的意图，以及可预测和合作的行动控制。因此，CRC的研究分为四个相互关联的研究领域：(A)具体的传感器和电机功能包括在与EDT协调和交互时感知、预测和执行运动。(B)人造身体包括根据其人造身体的外观和行为赋予EDT能力，以及将人造身体体验为人体的替代品或延伸。(C)共享环境的目标是人类和EDT的共同注意力、空间定向和协调行为。第四，(D)混合社会中的意向性侧重于人类和EDT之间对特定情况的意图的归因和交流。因此，儿童权利公约混合社团全面解决了迫在眉睫的社会挑战。它产生于大学核心能力人类与技术、材料与智能系统的合作研究项目和基础设施，并将通过CRC整合的和国际上嵌入的研究培训小组，大幅加强和扩大这些项目，以形成一个面向未来的、国际公认的科学中心，以产生可靠的科学成果，确保有益的混合社会。

Digital technologies gain autonomy and meet humans in more and more places in various physical forms, for instance as self-driving vehicles, robots, and drones, but also as avatars and other smart agents with virtual bodies. Digital technologies do also connect more often to the human body as digitally augmented prosthetics, exoskeletons, and virtual reality goggles, for example. Such technologies are embodied digital technologies (EDTs). Autonomously acting EDTs and humans sharing real or virtual environments as well as humans wearing EDTs or operating artificial bodies create hybrid societies. For efficient and smooth interaction in hybrid societies, human capabilities and technological possibilities have to be analyzed with specific foci and matched in novel ways. To this end, social sciences, humanities, and engineering disciplines have to join forces. The collaborative research of these disciplines on human-machine interaction is exceptionally strong at Chemnitz University of Technology. The CRC Hybrid Societies gathers the local expertise around a core in psychology and creates an international center for empirical investigation, analysis, and development that are urgently needed to ensure the most beneficial coexistence of living and synthetic bodies in the imminent hybrid societies. The CRC’s two leading research questions are: What is required so that humans can coordinate with EDTs as smoothly as with conspecifics? And: How to design EDTs to meet these requirements? For smooth coordination in shared environments, perceiving general capabilities and situation-specific intentions of interaction partners as well as predictable and cooperative action control are needed on the sides of both humans and EDTs. Accordingly, research in the CRC is grouped in four connected research areas: (A) Embodied Sensor and Motor Capabilities encompasses sensing, predicting, and executing movements when coordinating and interacting with EDTs. (B) Artificial Bodies comprises attributing capabilities to EDTs based on the appearance of their artificial bodies and their behavior as well as experiencing artificial bodies as substitutes or extensions of the human body. (C) Shared Environments targets joint attention, spatial orientation, and coordinated behavior of humans and EDTs. Fourth, (D) Intentionality in Hybrid Societies focuses on the attribution and communication of situation- specific intentions between humans and EDTs. Thus, the CRC Hybrid Societies comprehensively addresses looming societal challenges. It arises from collaborative research projects and infrastructure in the university’s core competencies Humans and Technology, and Materials and Intelligent Systems, and will strengthen and expand them substantially - also via the CRC's integrated and internationally embedded research training group - to form a future-oriented and internationally recognized science center that generates sound scientific results ensuring beneficial hybrid societies.