Monkey Business
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چکیده
Everyday work involves communicating, coordinating and collaborating with others. In many cases employees are situated in geographically distributed offices, and hence lack a general sense of their co-workers’ current activities and availability. At present, many companies invest money in communication systems that enable formal interactions, such as video conferencing. There are however few technologies that focus on supporting spontaneous and informal social communication, and awareness. For this thesis, I evaluate a novel communication system developed in collaboration with students in the Speech Interface Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, which supports everyday collaboration within distributed workgroups and provides the users with a sense of awareness. The system consists of a network of animatronic agents which are situated in the offices of each member in a group. By monitoring changes in activity in remote offices and representing these changes, the agents can provide the group members with information about other members’ current activities and availability. The information is conveyed through subtle movements, gestures and sounds. Based on the provided information the user can then make decisions regarding further interactions with fellow group members, for example to make a phone call or walk over to someone in the group. This thesis project focuses on evaluating the behaviors and sounds of the animatronic agents. The goals of this project are two-fold. First, I aim to attain a set of behaviors that the users find intuitive and straight-forward. Second, I want to achieve an appropriate level of intrusiveness, where the agents are active at the periphery of the users’ attention, but still intrusive enough to push their way into the foreground when necessary. Monkey Business – social interaktion mellan geografiskt åtskilda kollegor med hjälp av animerade robotar Sammanfattning Vardagligt arbete består till stor del av kommunikation; att koordinera arbetet och samarbeta med andra. I många fall befinner sig de anställda i geografiskt åtskilda kontor och har därför svårt att följa varandras arbete och aktivteter. Idag investerar många företag i avancerade kommunikationssystem som stödjer formell interaktion såsom telefonoch videokonferenser. Däremot finns det inte många system som stödjer mer spontan och informell interaktion. I detta examensarbete ligger fokus på att utvärdera ett nytt kommunikationssystem som jag har utvecklat tillsammans med studenter i Speech Interface Group på MIT Media Lab i Cambridge, Massachusetts. Systemet är konstruerat för att stödja vardagligt samarbete mellan kollegor som arbetar åtskilda genom att förmedla information om gruppmedlemmarnas aktiviteter och tillgänglighet. Systemet består av ett nätverk av animerade robotar, där varje gruppmedlem har en egen robot och placerar denna i sitt kontor. Robotarna ”lyssnar” kontinuerligt efter aktiviteter i gruppmedlemmarnas kontor och informerar därefter medlemmarna om dessa aktiviteter med hjälp av diskreta rörelser och ljud. Grundtanken är att gruppmedlemmarna sedan kan använda denna information för att fatta beslut om vidare interaktion eller informationsutbyte.
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