Intelligent Virtual Human Companions

这项研究旨在开发智能的虚拟人类伴侣，它似乎可以整合我们的直接物理环境，并了解他们周围的环境，包括人们的情绪、行为、行动和互动。这种技术将通过利用混合/增强现实技术的最新进展，以及为动态现实世界环境开发创新的人工智能、计算机视觉和图形算法来实现。与机器人不同，拟议中的技术将是低成本的，易于部署和定制，并且不会有任何物理限制或维护要求。因此，它将具有广泛的应用范围，从老年护理、医疗保健到教育培训。

This research aims to develop intelligent virtual human companions that can seemingly integrate our immediate physical environment and understand their surroundings including people’s emotions, behaviours, actions and interactions. Such a technology will be enabled by leveraging recent advances in mixed/augmented reality technologies, and by developing innovative artificial intelligence and computer vision and graphics algorithms for dynamic real-world environments. Unlike robots, the proposed technology will be low cost, readily deployable and customisable, and will not have any physical limitations or maintenance requirements. It will thus have a wide range of applications from elderly care, healthcare care to educational training.