Descripción del proyecto
Enriquecer la interacción social en espacios híbridos compartidos
La realidad extendida (RX) es una tecnología emergente con un potencial prometedor en muchos ámbitos, pero hay que superar varias limitaciones para enriquecer la experiencia interactiva de los usuarios. El objetivo del proyecto SHARESPACE, financiado con fondos europeos, es crear un prototipo novedoso de avatar o agente socialmente interactivo basado en la comunicación sensitivomotora humana. Captará los movimientos naturales del cuerpo, las expresiones faciales y los gestos de las manos para compilar una serie de primitivas sensitivomotoras que ayudarán a diseñar la arquitectura basada en inteligencia artificial de un renderizado humano totalmente móvil con características personalizables. El equipo de SHARESPACE validará el prototipo en tres situaciones reales de espacios híbridos compartidos en los que intervienen agentes humanos y artificiales en los ámbitos de la salud, el deporte y el arte.
Objetivo
SHARESHARESPACE will demonstrate a radically new technology for promoting ethical and social interaction in eXtended Reality (XR) Shared Hybrid Spaces (SHS), anchored in human sensorimotor communication. Our core concept is to identify and segment social sensorimotor primitives and reconstruct them in hybrid settings to build continuous, embodied, and rich human- avatar experiences. To achieve this, three interconnected science-towards-technology breakthroughs will be delivered: novel computational cognitive architectures, a unique self-calibrating body sensor network, and a fully mobile spatial Augmented Reality (AR) and virtual human rendering. We will create a library of social motion primitives and use them to design AI-based architectures of our artificial agents. SHARESPACE mobile capturing technologies combine loosely-coupled visual-inertial tracking of full body kinematic, hand pose and facial expression, incorporating novel neural encoding/decoding functionalities, together with local context-aware animations and highly realistic neural rendering. Our technology will be iteratively tested in 2 Proofs-of-principles involving human and artificial agents interacting in SHS, and 3 real-world use case scenarios in Health, Sport and Art. We will demonstrate a fully functional prototype of SHARESPACE tailored to the agents’ personalized characteristics (gender, culture, and social dispositions). SHARESPACE will support community-building and exploitation with concrete initiatives, including (i) public engagement around our research and innovation, (ii) promoting high-tech innovation and early transfer to our deep-tech companies, as premises for the consolidation of human-centric and sovereign European market areas such Industry AR and SHS, eHealth and tele-Health. Our long-term vision is to bring XR to a radically new level of presence and sociality by reconstructing sensorimotor primitives that enable ethical, trusted and inclusive modes of social interaction.
Ámbito científico
- medical and health scienceshealth scienceshealth care serviceseHealth
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensorssmart sensors
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation ActionsCoordinador
67663 Kaiserslautern
Alemania