The Way You See Me - Comparing Results from Online Video-Taped and In-Person Robotic Storytelling Research

摘要

During the covid-19 pandemic researchers had to find alternative ways to conduct experiments since lab-based studies were prohibited due to lock-downs and social distancing. Video-taping robots and conducting online studies is an easy approach to solve this issue, however, it is unclear whether results from online video-based studies are comparable to in-person experiments. As displaying recordings to participants in online studies is especially easy when it comes to robotic storytelling, we chose this use case for a comparison of the two methodologies and conducted a study with a NAO robot telling a humorous story with or without additional sound usage in an online- respectively lab-setting. Although differences between the presentation modes were found for robot perception, emotion induction, and storytelling experience, the main effect of sound integration did not differ between the two presentation modes, suggesting the comparability of results obtained from online video-based studies on robotic storytelling.