Android as a telecommunication medium with a human-like presence

  • Authors:

  • Daisuke Sakamoto;Takayuki Kanda;Tetsuo Ono;Hiroshi Ishiguro;Norihiro Hagita

  • Affiliations:

  • ATR Intelligent Robotics Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan and Future University-Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan;ATR Intelligent Robotics Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan;ATR Intelligent Robotics Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan and Future University-Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan;ATR Intelligent Robotics Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan and Osaka University, Osaka, Japan;ATR Intelligent Robotics Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this research, we realize human telepresence by developing a remote-controlled android system called Geminoid HI-1. Experimental results confirm that participants felt stronger presence of the operator when he talked through the android than when he appeared on a video monitor in a video conference system. In addition, participants talked with the robot naturally and evaluated its human likeness as equal to a man on a video monitor. At this paper's conclusion, we will discuss a remote-control system for telepresence that uses a human-like android robot as a new telecommunication medium.