Effect of Embodiment Presentation by Humanoid Robot on Social Telepresence

Abstract

In this study, we used a humanoid robot as a telepresence robot and compared with the basic telepresence robot which can only rotate the display in order to reveal the effect of embodiment. We also investigated the effect caused by changing the body size of the humanoid robot by using two different size of robots. Our experimental results revealed that the embodiment increases the remote person's social telepresence, familiarity, and directivity. The comparison between small and big humanoid robots showed no difference and both of them were effective.