TY - GEN
T1 - A Telepresence Robot Partner for Remote Work
T2 - Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2024
AU - Jhang, Kunlin
AU - Chien, Wei Chi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The COVID-19 pandemic significantly shifted the traditional workspace to the domestic environment. Social isolation inspires us to consider telepresence technologies to reshape our working experience. This study is inspired by the psychological concept of social facilitation and explores its implementation in telepresence robots. A telepresence robot representing somebody with minimal cues was designed and tested in our experiment on a puzzle task. We suspect a facilitative effect of the robot on the participants’ work efficiency and self-efficacy through its social presence. To evaluate the design, different modalities of the “observer” were set up as different experiment conditions. The initial result shows no significant social facilitation effect. However, this study contributes to the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of robots in remote work environments.
AB - The COVID-19 pandemic significantly shifted the traditional workspace to the domestic environment. Social isolation inspires us to consider telepresence technologies to reshape our working experience. This study is inspired by the psychological concept of social facilitation and explores its implementation in telepresence robots. A telepresence robot representing somebody with minimal cues was designed and tested in our experiment on a puzzle task. We suspect a facilitative effect of the robot on the participants’ work efficiency and self-efficacy through its social presence. To evaluate the design, different modalities of the “observer” were set up as different experiment conditions. The initial result shows no significant social facilitation effect. However, this study contributes to the ongoing debate on the effectiveness of robots in remote work environments.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-60412-6_8
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-60412-6_8
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85195822693
SN - 9783031604119
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 105
EP - 115
BT - Human-Computer Interaction - Thematic Area, HCI 2024, Held as Part of the 26th HCI International Conference, HCII 2024, Proceedings
A2 - Kurosu, Masaaki
A2 - Hashizume, Ayako
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Y2 - 29 June 2024 through 4 July 2024
ER -