Abstract
In recent years, we have a lot of opportunities to talk with people at remote locations using video chat systems and so on. However, such conventional remote communication systems cannot express presences of remote users sufficiently. Therefore, it is strongly required to improve the presences of remote users in remote communication. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the remote user's presence by combining a video of his/her actions and a humanoid robot. The video shows nonverbal information such as his/her facial expressions, lines of sight and gestures. The humanoid robot linked with the user's actions gives a feeling that he/she is really in the place. It is expected that the combination of these two factors improves the remote user's presence. We carry out experiments to verify effectiveness of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method improves the remote user's presence.
