Workshop on Perceptive Animated Interfaces and Virtual Humans

感知动画界面和虚拟人研讨会

• 批准号: 0343395
• 负责人: Ronald Cole
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-11-15 至 2005-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0343395&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Perceptive; Animated; Interfaces; Virtual

Perceptive Animated Interfaces represent a new generation of human computer interaction, in which people interact with machines much like people interact with each other in specific task domains. These interfaces incorporate virtual humans-lifelike three dimensional animated computer characters that exhibit expert intelligence and behaviors in specific task domains, such as learning and training. Virtual humans orient to the user, provide real time feedback as the user is speaking (e.g., head nods, smiles, puzzled looks), interpret the user's auditory and visual behaviors to infer his or her intentions and cognitive state, and communicate with the user sensitively and effectively to achieve the goals of the task through natural face-to-face dialogues. The goal of the Workshop on Perceptive Animated Interfaces and Virtual Humans is to bring together interested researchers from scientific disciplines to help conceptualize the challenges involved in developing perceptive animated interfaces incorporating virtual humans, to consider possible research agendas and the steps required to form a community that will work together to stimulate progress toward shared research goals. Participants include scientists from areas of human communication, human interface design, human language technology, computer vision, computer animation, cognitive science and other relevant fields of study. Workshop activities include assessing current theories and practice in relevant disciplines, defining research goals and objectives, evaluating system architectures, identifying task domains for which prototype systems can be developed as test beds for research, and identifying critical infrastructure necessary to conduct proposed work. The development of perceptive animated interfaces is expected to revolutionize human computer interaction by providing more natural and effective communication experiences, and to improve dramatically opportunities for learning and training, and access to networked information. The workshop report will recommend concrete steps toward research and development of perceptive animated interfaces and virtual humans.

感知动画界面代表了新一代的人机交互，其中人与机器的交互就像人在特定任务领域中彼此交互一样。 这些界面包含虚拟人类——栩栩如生的三维动画计算机角色，这些角色在特定任务领域（例如学习和培训）中表现出专家智慧和行为。虚拟人面向用户，在用户说话时提供实时反馈（例如点头、微笑、困惑的表情），解释用户的听觉和视觉行为以推断他或她的意图和认知状态，并与用户进行交流通过自然的面对面对话，敏感而有效地实现任务目标。 感知动画界面和虚拟人研讨会的目标是汇集来自科学学科感兴趣的研究人员，帮助概念化开发包含虚拟人的感知动画界面所涉及的挑战，考虑可能的研究议程和形成社区所需的步骤将共同努力，促进实现共同研究目标的进展。参与者包括来自人类交流、人机界面设计、人类语言技术、计算机视觉、计算机动画、认知科学和其他相关研究领域的科学家。研讨会活动包括评估相关学科的当前理论和实践，定义研究目的和目标，评估系统架构，确定可以开发原型系统作为研究测试台的任务领域，以及确定进行拟议工作所需的关键基础设施。 感知动画界面的发展预计将通过提供更自然和有效的通信体验来彻底改变人机交互，并显着改善学习和培训以及获取网络信息的机会。研讨会报告将建议研究和开发感知动画界面和虚拟人的具体步骤。