Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

4-2022

Abstract

Online synchronous tutoring allows for immediate engagement between instructors and audiences over distance. However, tutoring physical skills remains challenging because current telepresence approaches may not allow for adequate spatial awareness, viewpoint control of the demonstration activities scattered across an entire work area, and the instructor’s sufficient awareness of the audience. We present Asteroids, a novel approach for tangible robotic telepresence, to enable workbench-scale physical embodiments of remote people and tangible interactions by the instructor. With Asteroids, the audience can actively control a swarm of mini-telepresence robots, change camera positions, and switch to other robots’ viewpoints. Demonstrators can perceive the audiences’ physical presence while using tangible manipulations to control the audience’s viewpoints and presentation flow. We conducted an exploratory evaluation for Asteroids with 12 remote participants in a model-making tutorial scenario with an architectural expert demonstrator. Results suggest our unique features benefitted participants’ engagement, sense of presence, and understanding.

Keywords

Telepresence, Collaboration, Robots, Physical Skill

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Research Areas

Information Systems and Management

Publication

CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New Orleans, USA, April 22-29

First Page

1

Last Page

14

ISBN

9781450391573

Identifier

10.1145/3491102.3501927

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York, USA

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501927

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