Reading facial expressions from real and virtual humans

该项目旨在促进对人类情感交流的理解，并改善人类与正在迅速渗透我们社交世界的虚拟人和化身的关系。使用两个独特的刺激集-自然主义的人类表情和高度逼真的虚拟面孔-以及强大的遗传，实验和个体差异设计，该项目预计将回答情感科学中以前难以解决的问题，并提供切实的成果，例如新的心理测试，以更好地了解人类的社会联系。这应该会带来显著的好处，通过改善情感沟通，并为人工智能如何最好地服务于人类社会需求提供新的视角。

This project aims to advance understanding of human emotional communication and improve human rapport with the virtual humans and avatars that are rapidly infiltrating our social world. Using two unique stimulus sets - naturalistic human expressions and highly realistic virtual faces - together with powerful genetic, experimental, and individual differences designs, the project expects to answer previously intractable questions in emotion science, as well as deliver tangible outcomes, such as new psychological tests to better understand human social connection. This should provide significant benefits, by improving emotion communication and offering a new perspective on how artificial intelligence can best serve human social needs.