TY - JOUR
T1 - The impact of head movements on user involvement in mediated interaction
AU - Bamoallem, Banan S.
AU - Wodehouse, Andrew J.
AU - Mair, Gordon M.
AU - Annamalai Vasantha, Gokula Vijayumar
PY - 2016/2/1
Y1 - 2016/2/1
N2 - Communication takes place not only through speech, but also through gestures such as facial expressions, gaze, head movements, hand movements and body posture. Although developing rapidly, current communication platforms do not facilitate the types of behaviour we believe are needed to fully support non-verbal communication and make interactions more engaging and efficient. In this paper, we decided to focus our research specifically on the head rather than any other body part as it is a rich source of information for speech-related movement. Thus we aim in this study to investigate the value of incorporating head movements into the use of telepresence robots as communication platforms; by means of investigating a system that manually reproduces head movement as closely as possible. The essential quantitative results revealed no significant differences on any of the measures we used. However, the qualitative information from the experiment indicates of further research will be useful in this area. These findings suggest that an enclose body language are required for a real-time communication beside the head nodding.
AB - Communication takes place not only through speech, but also through gestures such as facial expressions, gaze, head movements, hand movements and body posture. Although developing rapidly, current communication platforms do not facilitate the types of behaviour we believe are needed to fully support non-verbal communication and make interactions more engaging and efficient. In this paper, we decided to focus our research specifically on the head rather than any other body part as it is a rich source of information for speech-related movement. Thus we aim in this study to investigate the value of incorporating head movements into the use of telepresence robots as communication platforms; by means of investigating a system that manually reproduces head movement as closely as possible. The essential quantitative results revealed no significant differences on any of the measures we used. However, the qualitative information from the experiment indicates of further research will be useful in this area. These findings suggest that an enclose body language are required for a real-time communication beside the head nodding.
KW - engagement
KW - face-to-face interaction
KW - head movements
KW - nonverbal behaviours
KW - telepresence robot
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84943633427&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/07475632
U2 - 10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.016
DO - 10.1016/j.chb.2015.09.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84943633427
SN - 0747-5632
VL - 55
SP - 424
EP - 431
JO - Computers in Human Behaviour
JF - Computers in Human Behaviour
ER -