Interaction with an agent in blended reality

Authors:
Yusuke Kanai;Hirotaka Osawa;MIchita Imai
Affiliations:
Keio University, Yokohama, Japan;Keio University, Yokohama, Japan;Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
Venue:
Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Year:
2013

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Abstract

This paper proposes a Blended Reality Agent called "BReA" that can exist in both the real and virtual world and has communicative advantages that is more than simply the sum of those of a robotic agent and an on-screen agent. BReA can seamlessly transfers between the real world and virtual world and users can communicate with BReA without interruption during the transference. We conducted a field test and showed that users can recognize when it points from the virtual world to a real world object after it moves from the real world to virtual world. This result supports a hypothesis that communicating with BReA helps users recognize the link between real world and virtual world objects and virtual world information.