Abstract
Robotic telepresence systems-videoconferencing systems that allow a remote user to drive around in another location-are an emerging technology for supporting geographically-distributed teams. Thus far, many of these systems rely on affordances designed for stationary systems, such as a single, narrow-view camera to provide vision for the remote user. Teleoperation has offered some solutions to this via an augmented field-of-view, but how these solutions support task outcomes in collaborative mobile telepresence tasks has yet to be understood. To investigate this, we conducted a three condition (field-of-view: narrow (45°) vs. wide-angle (180°) vs. panoramic (360°)) between-participants controlled laboratory experiment. We asked participants (N=24) to collaborate with a confederate via a robotic telepresence system while using one of these views in a redecoration task. Our results showed that wider views supported task efficiency and fewer collisions, but were perceived as more difficult to use.
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702526
BibTex
@inproceedings{Johnson_2015,
doi = {10.1145/2702123.2702526},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145%2F2702123.2702526},
year = 2015,
month = {apr},
publisher = {{ACM}},
author = {Steven Johnson and Irene Rae and Bilge Mutlu and Leila Takayama},
title = {Can You See Me Now?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 33rd Annual {ACM} Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems}
}