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Comparing Video, Avatar, and Robot Mediated Communication: Pros and Cons of Embodiment

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Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing (CollabTech 2014)

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In recent years, studies have begun on robot conferencing as a new telecommunication medium. In robot conferencing, people talk with a remote conversation partner through teleoperated robots which present the bodily motions of the partner with a physical embodiment. However, the effects of physical embodiment on distant communication had not yet been demonstrated. In this study, to find the effects, we conducted an experiment in which subjects talked with a partner through robots and various existing communication media (e.g. voice, avatar and video chats). As a result, we found that the physical embodiment enhanced social telepresence, i.e., the sense of resembling face-to-face interaction. Furthermore, the result implied that physical embodiment built the sense of tension as in the case of a first face-to-face meeting.

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  1. Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka, 565-0871, Japan

    Kazuaki Tanaka & Hideyuki Nakanishi

  2. CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan

    Kazuaki Tanaka

  3. Department of Systems Innovation, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-8531, Japan

    Hiroshi Ishiguro

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  1. Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai,, 923-1211, Nomi, Ishikawa, Japan

    Takaya Yuizono

  2. Diagonal Paraquay 257, 8330015, Santiago, Chile

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  3. Department of Computer Science, Universidad de Chile, Blanco Encalada 2120, Santiago, Chile

    Nelson Baloian

  4. Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan

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  5. Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

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Tanaka, K., Nakanishi, H., Ishiguro, H. (2014). Comparing Video, Avatar, and Robot Mediated Communication: Pros and Cons of Embodiment. In: Yuizono, T., Zurita, G., Baloian, N., Inoue, T., Ogata, H. (eds) Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing. CollabTech 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44651-5_9

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