Studying virtual worlds as medium for telepresence robots

Authors:
Alex Juarez;Christoph Bartneck;Loe Feijs
Affiliations:
Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands;Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand;Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Venue:
HRI '12 Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a study on the effects of using virtual worlds as medium for interaction with telepresence robots. The Prototype for Assisted Communication PAC4 is also introduced. This system connects virtual worlds with real robots, allowing virtual world users to access the robot capabilities in a telepresence scenario. A user experiment was conducted to evaluate the effects of PAC4 on the feeling of social presence experienced by virtual world users.