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Design and Development of Playful Robotic Interfaces for Affective Telepresence

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This chapter describes our exploratory studies toward design and development of playful robotic interfaces for intimate telepresence. Our goal has been to create playful experience for couples in long-distance relationships (LDRs) through telepresence robots. Playfulness is becoming an increasingly important theme in human-computer interaction (HCI) and human-robot interaction (HRI). Playfulness refers to enhancing the quality of the experience by adding joy, pleasure, and fun and in a more general description adding hedonic attributes to the experience. Within the context of this study, playfulness is reflected as enhancing the affective dimension of the interaction through iterative prototyping. Intimate telepresence refers to a group of telepresence technologies, which convey the message of being copresence with the intimate partner or loved ones. In this chapter, we present a new generation of telepresence technology that increases the possibility of ongoing connectedness, self-disclosure, and empathy through stochastic detection of the user’s mood state and regenerating it in the remote location. Intimate telepresence has been also explored from the design point of view. In this respect a pair of personalizable telepresence robots are designed, developed, and evaluated. These robots can transmit the body languages in the remote location and are designed based on the concept of enclothed cognition and the influences of appearance and likeness on affectivity. And finally, the possibility of teleporting kisses was explored and the first longitudinal field study within the field of intimate telepresence was performed.

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  1. School of Electronics and Computer Science, Interaction, Complexity Group, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Elham Saadatian

  2. Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, National Taipei University, NTUP, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hooman Samani

  3. Interactive and Digital Media Institute, National University of Singapore, 119613, Singapore, Singapore

    Ryohei Nakatsu

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Saadatian, E., Samani, H., Nakatsu, R. (2015). Design and Development of Playful Robotic Interfaces for Affective Telepresence. In: Nakatsu, R., Rauterberg, M., Ciancarini, P. (eds) Handbook of Digital Games and Entertainment Technologies. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4560-52-8_63-1

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