Collaborative Research: CISE-MSI: DP: HCC: Buenas - Giving All a Seat at the Table Using Mixed Reality

协作研究：CISE-MSI：DP：HCC：布埃纳斯 - 使用混合现实为所有人提供席位

• 批准号: 2318657
• 负责人: Voicu Popescu
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Purdue University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2318657&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CISE; MSI; DP

Online learning has become a critical aspect of modern post-secondary education, with many colleges and universities incorporating both synchronous and asynchronous online courses into their curricula. These kinds of courses can increase access to education for students from minority backgrounds, who are frequently of non-traditional student ages and may often need to travel farther and have fewer resources for attending in-class learning activities. However, online learning has not yet reached its full potential, with students reporting feeling disconnected from their on-campus classmates and instructor. Study groups are essential to undergraduate education, yet they have been especially problematic to replicate online. Conventional videoconferencing systems are inadequate for supporting the dynamic dialogue and good eye contact that are prerequisite to successful study groups. The Buenas research project will use mixed reality to develop a format for remote study group interaction that will allow local and remote students to interact naturally and effectively. Buenas will allow all students to see each other at their correct relative location and size, while providing advantages such as intuitiveness, situation awareness, depth perception, and increased sense of presence. The project has the potential to advance the effectiveness of small group meetings with hybrid local and remote attendance, especially for under-represented members of society, and will involve students from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSI) in research endeavors.Buenas will use mixed reality headsets to immerse remote students into local study groups. The goal is to allow local and remote students to interact naturally, as if all members of the group were co-located. At the local site, cardboard screens will be placed in unoccupied seats around the study group table to project video sprites (i.e., life-sized, background-subtracted videos) of the remote students onto them. At each remote site, a remote student will visualize the other students’ video sprites in mixed reality, integrated into their office spaces via virtual floating panels. The Buenas system will be validated via three user studies. The first study will compare study group sessions hosted with Buenas against sessions hosted via videoconferencing. The second study will compare various ways of representing the remote student, i.e., with a video sprite showing the person wearing a headset, with a computer animation avatar, and with a video sprite where the headset is removed through inpainting. The third study will evaluate Buenas with remote students connecting from their homes. The project will involve over two hundred students from the three collaborating institutions, two of which are MSIsThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在线学习已成为现代大专教育的关键方面，许多大学和大学都将同步和异步在线课程增加到当前。这些课程可以增加来自少数族裔背景的学生的教育机会，他们经常是非传统的学生年龄，并且可能需要走得更远，并且在参加课堂学习活动的资源较少。但是，在线学习尚未充分潜力，学生报告与校园同学和讲师脱节。研究小组对于本科教育至关重要，但是在线复制它们特别有问题。传统的视频会议系统不足以支持成功学习组的前提动态对话和良好的眼神交流。 Buenas研究项目将使用混合现实来为远程研究小组互动开发一种格式，这将使本地和远程学生自然有效地互动。布宜纳斯将允许所有学生以正确的相对位置和规模互相见面，同时提供诸如直觉，情境意识，深度感知和增加的存在感等优势。该项目有可能提高与混合本地和远程出席的小组会议的有效性，尤其是对于代表性不足的社会成员，并将与研究努力中的少数派服务机构（MSI）的学生有关。Buenas将使用混合现实的题为将偏远偏远的学生浸入本地研究小组。目的是允许本地和远程学生自然互动，就好像该小组的所有成员都是共同分居的一样。在当地的网站上，纸板屏幕将被放置在研究组桌子周围的无人居住的座位上，以便在其中的远程学生的录像带（即，真人大小，背景减少的视频）。在每个远程站点，一个远程学生将在混合现实中可视化其他学生的视频精灵，并通过虚拟浮动面板整合到他们的办公空间中。 Buenas系统将通过三个用户研究验证。第一项研究将比较主持布斯的研究小组会议与通过视频会议主持的会议进行比较。第二项研究将比较代表远程学生的各种方式，即，视频精灵显示戴着耳机，带有计算机动画头像的人，并使用视频精灵，其中通过钻头删除了耳机。第三项研究将与远程学生一起评估布宜一，从家里建立联系。该项目将涉及来自三个合作机构的200多名学生，其中两个是Misisthis Award反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，认为通过评估被认为是珍贵的支持。