Comparison of a Humanoid Robot and an On-Screen Agent as Presenters to Audiences

Author

Takeuchi, Johane ; Kushida, Kazutaka ; Nishimura, Yoshitaka ; Dohi, Hiroshi ; Ishizuka, Mitsuru ; Nakano, Mikio ; Tsujino, Hiroshi

Author_Institution

Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Tokyo Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

9-15 Oct. 2006

Firstpage

3964

Lastpage

3969

Abstract

Both on-screen agents and humanoid robots are increasingly used as human-computer interfaces. This study evaluates an on-screen agent and a humanoid robot in the task of one-sided presentations. We compared the participant´s subjective impressions of nearly identical presentation contents performed by each presenter. The results derived by the semantic differential (SD) method and the direct questioning show that each presenter has different functional advantages. We infer that on-screen agent and robot can complement each other in presentations

Keywords

control engineering computing; humanoid robots; user interfaces; human-computer interfaces; humanoid robot; onscreen agent; semantic differential method; Animation; Collaboration; Humanoid robots; Information analysis; Information science; Intelligent robots; Markup languages; Psychology; Recruitment; XML; SD method; humanoid robot; multimodal presentation; on-screen agent;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0258-1

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0259-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IROS.2006.281832

Filename

4059027