Paper Info
Title
User impressions of a stuffed doll robot's facing direction in animation systems
Abstract
This paper investigates the effect on user impressions of the body direction of a stuffed doll robot in an animation system. Many systems that combine a computer display with a robot have been developed, and one of their applications is entertainment, for example, an animation system. In these systems, the robot, as a 3D agent, can be more effective than a 2D agent in helping the user enjoy the animation experience by using spatial characteristics, such as body direction, as a means of expression. The direction in which the robot faces, i.e., towards the human or towards the display, is investigated here. User impressions from 25 subjects were examined. The experiment results show that the robot facing the display together with a user is effective for eliciting good feelings from the user, regardless of the user's personality characteristics. Results also suggest that extroverted subjects tend to have a better feeling towards a robot facing the user than introverted ones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1322192.1322241
ICMI
Keywords
Field
DocType
extroverted subject,animation experience,good feeling,experiment result,animation system,body direction,computer display,better feeling,doll robot,user impression
Social robot,Computer vision,Entertainment,Animation system,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Animation,Robot,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hiroko Tochigi140.80
Kazuhiko Shinozawa234331.97
Norihiro Hagita32877259.10