Authoring Robot Presentation for Promoting Reflection on Presentation Scenario

Abstract

In presentation, presenters are required to conduct non-verbal behavior involving face direction and gesture, which is so important for promoting audience's understanding. However, it is not simple for the presenters to use appropriate non-verbal behavior depending on the presentation contexts. In order to address this issue, this paper proposes a robot presentation system that allows presenters to reflect on their presentation through authoring the presentation scenario used by the robot. Features of the proposed system are that the presenters can easily and quickly author and modify their presentation, and that they can become aware of points to be modified. In addition, this paper reports a case study using the system with six participants, whose purpose was to compare the proposed system with the convention system in terms of complication for authoring the scenario. The results suggest that our system allows presenters to easily and quickly modify the presentation.