TeleAware Robot: Designing Awareness-augmented Telepresence Robot for Remote Collaborative Locomotion

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Main Authors: Li, Ruyi, Zhu, Yaxin, Liu, Min, Zeng, Yihang, Zhuang, Shanning, Fu, Jiayi, Lu, Yi, Zhou, Guyue, Liu, Can, Gong, Jiangtao
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author Li, Ruyi
Zhu, Yaxin
Liu, Min
Zeng, Yihang
Zhuang, Shanning
Fu, Jiayi
Lu, Yi
Zhou, Guyue
Liu, Can
Gong, Jiangtao
author_facet Li, Ruyi
Zhu, Yaxin
Liu, Min
Zeng, Yihang
Zhuang, Shanning
Fu, Jiayi
Lu, Yi
Zhou, Guyue
Liu, Can
Gong, Jiangtao
contents Telepresence robots can be used to support users to navigate an environment remotely and share the visiting experience with their social partners. Although such systems allow users to see and hear the remote environment and communicate with their partners via live video feed, this does not provide enough awareness of the environment and their remote partner's activities. In this paper, we introduce an awareness framework for collaborative locomotion in scenarios of onsite and remote users visiting a place together. From an observational study of small groups of people visiting exhibitions, we derived four design goals for enhancing the environmental and social awareness between social partners, and developed a set of awareness-enhancing techniques to add to a standard telepresence robot - named TeleAware robot. Through a controlled experiment simulating a guided exhibition visiting task, TeleAware robot showed the ability to lower the workload, facilitate closer social proximity, and improve mutual awareness and social presence compared with the standard one. We discuss the impact of mobility and roles of local and remote users, and provide insights for the future design of awareness-enhancing telepresence robot systems that facilitate collaborative locomotion.
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spellingShingle TeleAware Robot: Designing Awareness-augmented Telepresence Robot for Remote Collaborative Locomotion
Li, Ruyi
Zhu, Yaxin
Liu, Min
Zeng, Yihang
Zhuang, Shanning
Fu, Jiayi
Lu, Yi
Zhou, Guyue
Liu, Can
Gong, Jiangtao
Human-Computer Interaction
H.5.2
Telepresence robots can be used to support users to navigate an environment remotely and share the visiting experience with their social partners. Although such systems allow users to see and hear the remote environment and communicate with their partners via live video feed, this does not provide enough awareness of the environment and their remote partner's activities. In this paper, we introduce an awareness framework for collaborative locomotion in scenarios of onsite and remote users visiting a place together. From an observational study of small groups of people visiting exhibitions, we derived four design goals for enhancing the environmental and social awareness between social partners, and developed a set of awareness-enhancing techniques to add to a standard telepresence robot - named TeleAware robot. Through a controlled experiment simulating a guided exhibition visiting task, TeleAware robot showed the ability to lower the workload, facilitate closer social proximity, and improve mutual awareness and social presence compared with the standard one. We discuss the impact of mobility and roles of local and remote users, and provide insights for the future design of awareness-enhancing telepresence robot systems that facilitate collaborative locomotion.
title TeleAware Robot: Designing Awareness-augmented Telepresence Robot for Remote Collaborative Locomotion
topic Human-Computer Interaction
H.5.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04579