A Presentation Avatar for Self-Review

Abstract

Presentation is one of the most important activities for researchers. For proper presentation, self-rehearsal is often conducted. In self-rehearsal, presenters usually make presentation to themselves with their PC. However, they often miss finding some points to be modified, since they need to review it concurrently with making their presentation. On the other hand, there is another way for self-reviewing, in which they could make a video of their presentation and then check it out. Although it allows them to direct more efforts to review, they would feel quite uncomfortable due to their looks and voice on the video. Our approach to this issue is to design presentation avatar, which allow the presenters to objectively self-review their own presentation without any uncomfortable sense. In this paper, we propose and demonstrate a presentation avatar, which reproduces presentation the presenters make. This paper also reports a case study using it, in which we compare self-review with presentation video and self- review with presentation avatar. The results suggest that presentation avatar has a potential to promote self-reviewing to improve presentation.