Abstract
The last two decades have seen the emergence of a new family of communication products—telepresence robots—that bridges research and development on media spaces, telepres-ence, teleoperation, and robotics. These products offer remote users mobility as well as embodiment in a local environment and thus promise improvements in communication and collaboration among distributed work teams. While the early prototypes of telepresence robots date back to the late 90s, the recent emergence of commercial applications and increasingly widespread adoption by organizations have spurred an exploration of the rich design space for these products. This abstract outlines this design space, presents two studies that explore this space, focusing on aspects of mobility and embodiment, and discusses directions for future research.
BibTex
@article{mutlutele,
title={From Tele-presence to Tele-mobility: Exploring the Design Space for Robotic Communication Products},
author={Mutlu, Bilge}
}