The Role of Embodiment and Perspective in Direction-Giving Systems
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In this paper, we describe an evaluation of the impact of embodiment, the effect of different kinds of embodiment, and the benefits of different aspects of embodiment, on direction-giving systems. We compared a robot, embodied conversational agent (ECA), and GPS giving directions, when these systems used speakerperspective gestures, listener-perspective gestures and no gestures. Results demonstrated that, while there was no difference in direction-giving performance between the robot and the ECA, and little difference in participants’ perceptions, there was a considerable effect of the type of gesture employed, and several interesting interactions between type of embodiment and aspects of
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