人工智能与人机交互AI & Human–Computer Interaction
观察人与智能系统如何相互理解、协作与共处，探索更自然的交互方式。
How people and intelligent systems understand, collaborate, and coexist — and what more natural interaction could look like.
Protocol 8 · Lab & Initiative
人工智能与
数字文化实验室
Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence & Digital Culture
Present day, Present time.
现世。此刻。
一个以人工智能为方法，观察、探索并改进当代数字文化的实验室。
A laboratory that observes, explores, and improves contemporary digital culture — with artificial intelligence as its method.
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关于 Protocol 8About Protocol 8
Protocol 8 是一个专注于结合人工智能技术观察、探索，并改进当代数字文化的实验室，以及同名计划。
Protocol 8 is a laboratory — and an initiative of the same name — dedicated to observing, exploring, and improving contemporary digital culture through artificial intelligence.
我们关注当下信息技术，以及其承载的相关数字文化如何将人们连接在一起，并以何种方式影响人们的内心。我们致力于帮助互联网用户更便捷、健康地参与互联网数字生活。
We study how today's information technologies — and the digital cultures they carry — connect people together, and in what ways they shape people's inner lives. We are committed to helping internet users take part in digital life more easily and more healthily.
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当前注目领域Current Areas of Focus
我们从这些具体的场域出发，观察技术与文化交织的方式。
These are the concrete arenas from which we observe how technology and culture intertwine.
AIGC（人工智能生成内容）AI-Generated Content (AIGC)
关注生成式人工智能如何改变内容的创作、传播与消费。
How generative AI is reshaping the way content is created, distributed, and consumed.
ACGN 亚文化ACGN Subculture
动画、漫画、游戏与轻小说构成的文化生态，及其社区的演化。
The cultural ecosystem of anime, comics, games, and novels — and how its communities evolve.
电子游戏与电子游戏社区Video Games & Gaming Communities
电子游戏作为当代重要的文化媒介，以及围绕它形成的玩家社区。
Video games as a defining cultural medium of our time, and the player communities that form around them.
虚拟偶像与虚拟偶像社区（VTuber & VOCALOID）Virtual Idols & Their Communities (VTuber & VOCALOID)
虚拟存在如何承载真实的情感连接，以及其社区的创作与共创文化。
How virtual beings carry real emotional connection, and the creative culture their communities build together.
互联网与现代城市生活The Internet & Modern Urban Life
网络如何嵌入现代城市的日常，重塑人们的生活方式与心理状态。
How the internet weaves into everyday urban life, reshaping how people live — and how they feel.
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产出形式What We Produce
Protocol 8 的工作以三种形式对外呈现。
The work of Protocol 8 takes three public forms.
Report
小的、局部的探索和揭示。以轻量的形式，记录我们对具体现象的观察与发现。
Small, focused explorations and findings — lightweight notes on the specific phenomena we observe.
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Research
较大的、具有正式方法论的研究，面向更完整的问题与更严谨的结论。
Larger studies with formal methodology, aimed at fuller questions and more rigorous conclusions.
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APP
Web、桌面与移动端应用，帮助人们更便捷、更健康地参与各类现代数字文化生活。
Web, desktop, and mobile applications that help people take part in modern digital culture more easily and healthily.
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