Mobile Robotic Telepresence (MRP) systems are remotely controlled, mobile videoconferencing devices that allow the remote user to move independently and have a physical presence in the environment. This paper presents a longitudinal study of MRP use in the home, where the first author used an MRP to connect with family, her partner, and friends over a six-month period. Taking an ethnomethodological approach, we present video recorded fragments to explore the phenomenon of ‘visiting’ where MRP users drop into the home for a period of time. We unpack the more ‘procedural’ elements—arriving and departing—alongside ways of ‘dwelling’ together during a visit, and the qualities of mobility, autonomous presence and spontaneity that emerge.
Citation
Andriana Boudouraki, Stuart Reeves, Joel E. Fischer, and Sean Rintel. 2022. Mediated Visits: Longitudinal Domestic Dwelling with Mobile Robotic Telepresence. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22), April 29-May 5, 2022, New Orleans, LA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517640
BibTeX
@inproceedings{boudouraki2022mediated,
author = {Boudouraki, Andriana and Reeves, Stuart and Fischer, Joel E. and Rintel, Sean},
title = {Mediated Visits: Longitudinal Domestic Dwelling with Mobile Robotic Telepresence},
organization = {ACM},
booktitle = {CHI 2022},
year = {2022},
month = {April},
url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/mediated-visits-longitudinal-domestic-dwelling-with-mobile-robotic-telepresence/},
}