Telepresence Robot Transmits Dialogist’s Head Movement for Smooth Conversation

Abstract

A telepresence robot is one of the remote conversation support robots. As an example for a main transmission movement of telepresence robot includes head movement. There are many previous researches dealing with convection of head movement by telepresence robot. However, these researches don’t deal with “screen movement” by head movement. In this paper, the authors indicate the impact of screen movement on users in conversation and to develop a telepresence robot that transmits only the listener’s nod to decrease screen movement. Moreover, we indicate usefulness of developed telepresence robot by comparison experiment between developed telepresence robot and a robot transmitting many screen movements.