Title
Designing On-Body 2D Patterns to Enhance Subsidiary Communication for Telepresence Robots
Abstract
As robotic telepresence is becoming more common and receives academic and industrial attention, the issue of how to increase the expressiveness of the telecommunication is becoming also important. In this paper, we explored the usage of 2D visual patterns displayed on the robot's body as a subsidiary visual channel to enhance communication between two remote users with a robot. Through a series of workshops with seventeen designers, we designed ten user-scenarios and corresponding 2D visual patterns to be used in four different environments: home, office, hospital, and department store. We then presented these patterns on the body of the M4K telepresence robot, and investigate with an online survey the expressiveness of the patterns in each of the proposed environments. Our results show the possibility of complex 2D visual expressions on the body of telepresence robots as a supplementary communication method and introduce a possible strategy for design those. Moreover, our results also show the overall perception and acceptability of these patterns split into three categories (progress indication, attention requests, and emotions) and across different environments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525646
2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Keywords
Field
DocType
2D visual patterns,On-Body 2D patterns,progress indication,attention requests,emotions,subsidiary communication,supplementary communication method,complex 2D visual expressions,M4K telepresence robot,department store,user-scenarios,remote users,subsidiary visual channel,expressiveness,industrial attention,academic attention
Expression (mathematics),Simulation,Computer science,Visualization,Communication channel,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Telerobotics,Perception,Visual patterns,Expressivity
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1944-9445
978-1-5386-7981-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Minkyeong Lee152.11
Okyu Choi210.69
Hyelip Lee352.84
Andrea Bianchi429026.29
Bum-Jae You540252.66
Minsoo Han600.34