Using the iCat as Avatar in Remote Meetings

Authors:
Dirk Heylen;Mannes Poel;Anton Nijholt
Affiliations:
Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Human Media Interaction, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE
Venue:
Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues
Year:
2009

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Abstract

We compared two ways of remote participation in a meeting. One in which a video-connection existed between the remote participant and the collocated participants and one in which the remote participant was represented by an iCat. We asked the participants to rate the conversations on various dimensions. The remote participants tended to prefer the meetings with the iCat whereas the co-located participants preferred the video connection on most dimensions.