HCC: Small: Collaborative Research: Cloud Primer: Leveraging Common Sense Computing to Learn Parent-Child Interaction Models for Early Childhood Literacy

HCC：小型：协作研究：Cloud Primer：利用常识计算学习亲子互动模型以提高儿童早期读写能力

• 批准号: 1117584
• 负责人: Sonia Chernova
• 金额: $ 19.42万
• 依托单位: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1117584&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Collaborative; Research; Cloud

Providing young children with opportunities to develop early literacy skills is important to their success in school, their success in learning to read, and their success in life. This project focuses on the creation of a new interactive reading primer technology on tablet computers that will foster early literacy skills and shared parent-child reading through the use of a targeted discussion-topic suggestion system aimed at the adult participant. The Cloud Primer will crowdsource the interactions and discussions of parent-child dyads across a community of readers. It will then leverage this information in combination with a common sense knowledge base to develop computational models of the interactions. These models will then be used to provide context-sensitive discussion topic suggestions to parents during the shared reading activity with young children. The work will be evaluated in week-long at-home studies.Intellectual merit: The project will make fundamental theoretical contributions to models of human-human and human-computer interaction, and their use in fostering engagement and learning. The effort will also produce new insights into how common sense reasoning can be integrated with large-scale data collection to develop interactive technologies that deal gracefully with inconsistencies and noise to provide diverse and semantically meaningful responses in unconstrained, real-world environments.Broader impacts: Research shows that one in three children in the United States enter kindergarten unprepared, and the majority of children who start behind typically stay behind. The Cloud Primer will counteract this trend by leveraging a community of readers to define a set of common discussion topics, actively exposing parents to these topics, and, through a simple touch interface, providing children of pre-reading age a mechanism for engaging adults in discussion. The new context and common sense aware interactive reading primer will be a fundamental advance over current digital reading technologies, which neither effectively achieve educational goals when used alone, nor support joint reading and adult engagement. The project will further contribute to education through undergraduate research, graduate thesis research, graduate course development, and outreach programs to women and under-represented minorities. To promote research in this area, the project will make all parent-child interaction data captured and annotated in the process of this research freely available to the research community, together with the Cloud Primer software. Furthermore, the computational methods developed through the course of this research will have applications in interactive domains beyond early literacy, such as foreign language learning.

为幼儿提供发展早期识字能力的机会对于他们在学校的成功，学习阅读的成功以及他们在生活中的成功至关重要。该项目的重点是在平板电脑上创建一种新的交互式阅读底漆技术，该技术将通过使用针对成人参与者的有针对性的讨论主题建议系统来培养早期扫盲技能并共享亲子阅读。云底漆将挤满读者社区的亲子二元组的互动和讨论。然后，它将利用这些信息与常识知识基础结合使用，以开发交互的计算模型。然后，这些模型将用于在与幼儿共享阅读活动期间向父母提供上下文敏感的讨论主题建议。 这项工作将在为期一周的家庭研究中进行评估。智能优点：该项目将对人类和人类计算机互动的模型以及它们在促进参与和学习中的使用做出基本的理论贡献。这项努力还将为如何与大规模数据收集集成在一起，以开发互动技术，以优雅地涉及不一致和噪音，以提供各种和语义上有意义的反应，从而在不受限制的现实世界中的环境中提供多样化和语义上有意义的回应。研究表明，研究表明，在三个儿童中，居住在幼儿园和多个儿童中，有一个典型的多态，这些互动型和语义上有意义的反应。云底漆将通过利用读者社区来定义一组共同的讨论主题，积极地将父母暴露在这些主题上，并通过简单的触摸界面来抵消这一趋势，并通过简单的触摸接口为您提供了预读年龄的孩子，一种使成年人参与讨论的机制。 新的环境和常识意识互动阅读引物将是比当前的数字阅读技术的基本进步，在单独使用时，它既不有效地实现教育目标，也不支持共同阅读和成人参与。 该项目将通过本科研究，研究生论文研究，研究生课程发展以及向妇女和代表性不足的少数民族的外展计划进一步为教育做出贡献。 为了促进该领域的研究，该项目将在研究社区免费获得和云启动软件的研究过程中捕获和注释的所有亲子互动数据。此外，通过这项研究过程开发的计算方法将在早期识字率（例如外语学习）以外的交互式领域中应用。