แนวคิดหลัก
Enhancing the social and environmental awareness between local and remote users to support their remote collaborative locomotion experience.
บทคัดย่อ
The observational study found that in collaborative exhibition viewing scenarios, viewers exhibit strong spatial, social, and situational awareness. Spatial awareness enables viewers to clearly perceive the environment, social awareness helps maintain social synchronization with partners, and situational awareness allows joint referencing of environmental information.
Based on this framework, the researchers designed four goals to enhance the awareness of telepresence robots:
- Enhance the environmental visibility of local spaces for remote users to improve spatial awareness.
- Support remote users in perceiving the location and status of local users to improve social awareness.
- Enhance embodied interaction between local and remote users to improve social awareness.
- Support joint referencing of environmental information by both local and remote users to improve situational awareness.
The researchers implemented these awareness-enhancing features in a telepresence robot system called "TeleAware Robot" and compared its performance against a standard telepresence robot in a controlled experiment. The results showed that the TeleAware Robot was able to lower the workload, facilitate closer social proximity, and improve mutual awareness and social presence compared to the standard robot.
สถิติ
"Remote collaboration occurs more and more frequently in people's daily lives today for various work, study, and leisure activities."
"Previous work found it hard for the remotely controlled robot to follow the onsite user."
"Visual perception is a key behavioral method for acquiring information about partners."
"Followers were observed to follow the gaze 159 times, while leaders were observed only 59 times."
คำพูด
"Telepresence robots can be used to support users to navigate an environment remotely and share the visiting experience with their social partners."
"Enhancing remote collaboration has long captured the attention of researchers in the fields of human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing."
"Awareness is a concept that encompasses the processes of knowing, perceiving, and being cognizant of events."