Display Methods of Text Input Awareness in Real Time for the Typing-Driven Embodied Entrainment Character Chat System

Abstract

A typing driven embodied entrainment character chat system “InterChat” has been developed by introducing an enhanced iRT (InterRobot Technology) model that can create motions where the communicative motions and actions can be generated easily from both the typing rhythms and the meaning of the words of sending and receiving messages. In this paper, focusing on the display process of input messages, we develop display methods for a new character chat system where the typing is displayed in real time in the form of dot or character strings between all participants. The effectiveness of the methods is demonstrated by sensory evaluation experiments conducted in chat communication scenario.