A Presentation Robot for Promoting Model-based Self-Review

Abstract

It is difficult for unskillful researchers to self-review their own presentation. In generally self-reviewing their presentation video, they would feel quite uncomfortable due to their looks and voice on it. They would also have difficulties in minutely self-reviewing their own presentation. Towards these issues, we propose a presentation robot that reproduces the presentation researchers make, and that allows them to self-review their presentation including not only slide contents and oral explanation but also non-verbal behavior with less uncomfortableness. We also propose a model of presentation behavior with slides, whose purpose is to design a checklist including points to be reviewed. It allows model-based self-review of presentation. This paper also reports a case study with the system, in which we have compared self-review with the presentation robot and self-review with a virtual character on PC. The results suggest the potential of the presentation robot for promoting model-based self-review of presentation behavior particularly non-verbal behavior.