Appearance, motion, and embodiment: unpacking avatars by fine‐grained communication analysis

Tanaka, Kazuaki; Nakanishi, Hiroaki; Ishiguro, Hiroshi

doi:10.1002/cpe.3442

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“…Although the transmitting appearance enhances social telepresence as mentioned above, it has not been clarified whether the appearance works even if the motion is not transmitted. The effect of presenting appearance on the smoothness of speech had already demonstrated (Tanaka et al, 2013(Tanaka et al, , 2015. The previous study showed that presenting partner's avatar increased the degree of the smoothness of speaking to the partner, but partner's photo did not have such an effect.…”

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Physical Embodiment Can Produce Robot Operatorâ€™s Pseudo Presence

2015

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Recent studies have focused on humanoid robots for improving distant communication. When a user talks with a remote conversation partner through a humanoid robot, the user can see the remote partner's body motions with physical embodiment but not the partner's current appearance. The physical embodiment existing in the same room with the user is the main feature of humanoid robots, but the effects on social telepresence, i.e., the sense of resembling face-to-face interaction, had not yet been well demonstrated. 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 enhances social telepresence. However, in terms of the degree of social telepresence, the humanoid robot remained at the same level as the partner's live video, since presenting partner's appearance also enhances social telepresence. To utilize the anonymity of a humanoid robot, we proposed the way that produces pseudo presence that is the sense of interacting with a remote partner when they are actually interacting with an autonomous robot. Through the second experiment, we discovered that the subjects tended to evaluate the degree of pseudo presence of a remote partner based on their prior experience of watching the partner's body motions reproduced by a robot. When a subject interacted with an autonomous robot after interacting with a teleoperated robot (i.e., a remote operator) that is identical with the autonomous robot, the subjects tended to feel as if they were talking with a remote operator.

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confidence: 96%

Physical Embodiment Can Produce Robot Operatorâ€™s Pseudo Presence

2015

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“…Avatar will increase a degree of smoothness of speaking to partner, though the appearance of the avatar itself will not affect much [14]. Facial expressions will improve the effectiveness of avatars in various contexts [4].…”

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Design of chatbot with 3D avatar, voice interface, and facial expression

Angga

Fachri

Elevanita

et al. 2015

2015 International Conference on Science in Information Technology (ICSITech)

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A chatbot is a conventional agent that is able to interact with users in a given subject by using natural language. The conversations in most chatbot are still using a keyboard as the input. Keyboard input is considered ineffective as the conversation is not natural without any saying and a conversation is not just about words. Therefore, this paper propose a design of a chatbot with avatar and voice interaction to make a conversation more alive. This proposed approach method will come from using several API and using its output as another input to next API. It would take speech recognition to take input from user, then proceed it to chatbot API to receive the chatbot reply in a text form. The reply will be processed to text-to-speech recognition and created a spoken, audio version of the reply. Last, the computer will render an avatar whose gesture and lips are sync with the audio reply. This design would make every customer service or any service with human interaction can use it to make interaction more natural. This design can be further explored with additional tool such as web camera to make the agent can analyze the user's emotion and reaction.

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“…Tanaka et al . study the effects real‐time avatars had on distant communications when the avatars served as a substitute for videos in distributed environments. The paper discusses two experiments involving videos, photos, or avatars to supplement voice communications.…”

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Contemporary Computer Supported Collaboration: Systems, Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications

Smari¹,

Navarro

McQuay

2015

Concurrency and Computation

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CONTEMPORARY COMPUTER SUPPORTED COLLABORATIONDuring the past two decades, we have seen rising interest in computer-supported collaboration and, with the advent of the Web 2.0 and semantic technologies, increased importance for collaborative work. Worldwide, people expect unlimited access to information within and across cultures. Social networking continues to expand and impact collaboration approaches at the personal and enterprise levels. As a result, the computer-supported collaboration research community has turned its attention to the study of human social behavior from records such as blogs, wikis, social media, and social networking sites [1].The desire for mobile and pervasive connectivity is pushing expansion of an ever growing wired and wireless high speed backbone that globally combines computing, sensing, and communication technologies. Annually, new classes of mobile devices are added to the traditional desktop, laptop, tablet, and smartphones. However, computer-based collaboration encompasses complex hardware and software issues that have been in the focus of the research community for a long time [2]. In 1981, Johnson-Lenz coined the term groupware as 'intentional group processes plus software to support them' [3]. By 1988, the term computer-supported cooperative work was defined as 'a scientific discipline guiding the design and development of groupware in a meticulous and appropriate way ' [4]. Computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) is a multidisciplinary discipline that encompasses technical, human, and social factors that can vary its implementations depending on the context, culture, organization, and country that apply it [5].As collaborative/cooperative applications evolved, important challenges also arose for developers [6]. As a result, significant on-going research works address topics such as collaboration systems infrastructure, human systems, collaboration work and processes, and unique domain-specific issues.The field of infrastructure is one of the most active areas in computer-supported collaboration, with research focused on underlying technologies such as cloud computing, big data, service-oriented architectures, smart networks, and grids. Advanced infrastructure technologies offer a vision of resources (networks, computational servers, storage, search engines, collaboration tools and applications, etc.) as a service, with greater ease to collaborate while lowering cost. The Internet of Things (IoT) captures the growing importance of sensor swarms and collaborative devices that are often attached to one's smartphone or tablet. At the same time, there are new complementary challenges for privacy and security as we attempt to understand how to handle trust in complex systems and how to measure trustworthiness in human-to-human, human-to-machine, and machine-to-machine collaborations.The field of human systems focuses on the human component in collaboration such as coordination and cooperation mechanisms, cultural and psychological aspects, natural languages, human-machine inter...

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Appearance, motion, and embodiment: unpacking avatars by fine‐grained communication analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Physical Embodiment Can Produce Robot Operatorâ€™s Pseudo Presence

Physical Embodiment Can Produce Robot Operatorâ€™s Pseudo Presence

Design of chatbot with 3D avatar, voice interface, and facial expression

Contemporary Computer Supported Collaboration: Systems, Technologies, Algorithms, and Applications

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