Mobile telepresence robots (MTRs) allow people to navigate and interact with a remote environment that is in a place other than the person's true location. Thanks to the recent advances in 360 • vision, many MTRs are now equipped with an all-degree visual perception capability. However, people's visual field horizontally spans only about 120 • of the visual field captured by the robot. To bridge this observability gap toward human-MTR shared autonomy, we have developed a framework, called GHAL360, to enable the MTR to learn a goal-oriented policy from reinforcements for guiding human attention using visual indicators. Three telepresence environments were constructed using datasets that are extracted from Matterport3D and collected from a real robot respectively. Experimental results show that GHAL360 outperformed the baselines from the literature in the efficiency of a human-MTR team completing target search tasks. A demo video is available: https://youtu.be/aGbTxCGJSDM
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