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There are several ways in which a conversation partner points to a remote place in videoconferencing: (1) displaying the partner’s pointing gesture, that is, ordinary videoconferencing, (2) displaying the partner’s arm on a tabletop display, (3) projecting a laser dot and it is synchronized with the laser pointer held by the partner, and (4) embodying the partner’s pointing behavior by a robotic pointer or a robotic arm. In this study, we implemented these methods on the videoconferencing system and compared the effect on social telepresence (i.e. the sense that a participant feels as if he/she meets with the conversation partner in the same place). We found that the fourth method, which embodied the remote partner’s pointing behavior, enhanced social telepresence.
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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers JP26280076, JP15K12081, KDDI Foundation, Telecommunication Advancement Foundation, Foundation for the Fusion of Science and Technology, Tateishi Science and technology Foundation and JST CREST.
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Onishi, Y., Tanaka, K., Nakanishi, H. (2017). Spatial Continuity and Robot-Embodied Pointing Behavior in Videoconferencing. In: Gutwin, C., Ochoa, S., Vassileva, J., Inoue, T. (eds) Collaboration and Technology. CRIWG 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10391. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63874-4_1
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