TeleAware Robot: Designing Awareness-augmented Telepresence Robot for Remote Collaborative Locomotion
Abstract
Telepresence robots can be used to support users to navigate an environment remotely and share the visiting experience with their social partners. Although such systems allow users to see and hear the remote environment and communicate with their partners via live video feed, this does not provide enough awareness of the environment and their remote partner's activities. In this paper, we introduce an awareness framework for collaborative locomotion in scenarios of onsite and remote users visiting a place together. From an observational study of small groups of people visiting exhibitions, we derived four design goals for enhancing the environmental and social awareness between social partners, and developed a set of awareness-enhancing techniques to add to a standard telepresence robot - named TeleAware robot. Through a controlled experiment simulating a guided exhibition visiting task, TeleAware robot showed the ability to lower the workload, facilitate closer social proximity, and improve mutual awareness and social presence compared with the standard one. We discuss the impact of mobility and roles of local and remote users, and provide insights for the future design of awareness-enhancing telepresence robot systems that facilitate collaborative locomotion.
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@article{arxiv.2404.04579,
title = {TeleAware Robot: Designing Awareness-augmented Telepresence Robot for Remote Collaborative Locomotion},
author = {Ruyi Li and Yaxin Zhu and Min Liu and Yihang Zeng and Shanning Zhuang and Jiayi Fu and Yi Lu and Guyue Zhou and Can Liu and Jiangtao Gong},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.04579},
year = {2024}
}
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33 pages, 12 figures