CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: 3D Audio Augmentation for Limited Field of View Augmented Reality Systems for Medical Training

CHS：小型：协作研究：用于有限视场的 3D 音频增强医疗培训增强现实系统

基本信息

批准号：
1718085
负责人：
Kyla McMullen
金额：
$ 29.97万
依托单位：
University of Florida
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-01 至 2024-02-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1718085&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CHS Small Collaborative Research 3D

项目摘要

Medical task simulators can provide a safe, affordable, and repeatable environment in which practitioners can rehearse procedures without impacting patient safety. Augmented reality (AR) is therefore the ideal display technology in this field, allowing the user to directly interact and practice skills within a natural environment. But current AR displays typically have a narrow field of view (FOV), which makes it difficult for users to immediately attend to an object outside of their periphery. This research will employ 3D audio to overcome that challenge. As a benefit to other AR and medical researchers, the system itself and other materials created for the present work (design, implementation, and tutorials) will be openly available on the project's website for all to use, modify, and contribute, and an open-source community will be created to link users and researchers who have similar interests as the present work. Undergraduate, women, and minority students will be engaged in all project activities through the Distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (DREU) program of the NSF-funded iAAMCS (Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computing Sciences), as well as the PI's courses on 3D sound design. Results will also be disseminated at relevant conference venues. The present work will advance research relating to the use of 3D audio for cueing in narrow FOV contexts, thereby improving interaction in large AR environments, and will create generalizable best-practices that lead to successful experiences when using AR devices. &#8232;This research will develop the tools, methods, and infrastructure to evaluate how 3D sound can be used to enhance AR. This area of research is increasingly important, because as virtual reality (VR) and AR systems become more commonplace, it is imperative to design tools to overcome device limitations. The practical application of the proposed work will be realized through the evaluation of an AR-based prostate biopsy training procedure that will capture and reconstruct a full surgical procedure, with at least 3 dynamic participants in very close proximity. The project will pursue three main themes: (1) Infrastructure Development - The PIs and team will develop an extensible open-source software system that allows users to test their desired sound mappings; (2) Sound Mapping Quantification - Although sound has been used to convey spatial information in numerous contexts, the appropriate strategy for mapping periphery information to spatial sound attributes has not yet been determined, so the PIs propose a series of user studies to determine the mappings that most successfully help a user to attend to a target outside of their FOV; (3) Practical Application - To assess how well the proposed solution mitigates the challenge of a narrow FOV, a user study will be conducted to determine how the addition of 3D audio affects participants learning to perform the steps of a prostate biopsy procedure.

医疗任务模拟器可以提供安全，负担得起且可重复的环境，从业人员可以在其中排练程序而不会影响患者的安全。因此，增强现实（AR）是该领域中理想的显示技术，使用户可以在自然环境中直接互动和练习技能。但是当前的AR显示通常具有狭窄的视野（FOV），这使得用户很难立即在其外围的物体外面参加对象。这项研究将采用3D音频来克服这一挑战。作为对其他AR和医学研究人员的好处，该系统本身以及为当前工作创建的其他材料（设计，实施和教程）将在项目的网站上公开可用，以供所有人使用，修改和贡献，并将创建一个开放源代码社区，以链接与当前工作相似的利益的用户和研究人员。本科，妇女和少数族裔学生将通过NSF资助的IAAMCS（计算机科学领域的非裔美国人指导研究所）的分布式研究经验（DREU）计划，从事所有项目活动。结果还将在相关会议场所传播。目前的工作将推进与使用3D音频在狭窄的FOV环境中提示有关的研究，从而改善大型AR环境中的交互作用，并创建可概括的最佳实践，从而在使用AR设备时会导致成功的体验。＆＃8232;这项研究将开发工具，方法和基础架构，以评估如何使用3D声音来增强AR。研究领域越来越重要，因为随着虚拟现实（VR）和AR系统变得越来越普遍，必须设计工具来克服设备限制。拟议工作的实际应用将通过评估基于AR的前列腺活检训练程序来实现，该程序将捕获和重建完整的外科手术，至少有3位动态参与者非常接近。该项目将追求三个主要主题：（1）基础架构开发 - PIS和团队将开发可扩展的开源软件系统，使用户可以测试其所需的声音映射；（2）声音映射量化 - 尽管声音已被用于在众多上下文中传达空间信息，但尚未确定将外围信息映射到空间声音属性的适当策略，因此PIS提出了一系列用户研究，以确定最成功地帮助用户在FOV以外的目标映射；（3）实际应用 - 为了评估提出的解决方案如何缓解狭窄FOV的挑战，将进行用户研究以确定添加3D音频如何影响参与者学习执行前列腺活检程序的步骤。