From 2D to Kubi to Doubles: Designs for Student Telepresence in Synchronous Hybrid Classrooms

Bell, Jessica K.; Cain, William; Peterson, Amy; Cheng, Cui

doi:10.14434/ijdl.v7i3.19520

Cited by 19 publications

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“…One challenge is that social presence-an important aspect of a successful learning experience (Chickering & Gamson, 1987)-is often more difficult for online students to form. Online students, especially, often complain about feeling disconnected from their instructor in the learning environment (Smith & Taveras, 2005) or as interrupting interactions happening in the physical space of the classroom (Bell, Cain, Peterson, & Cheng, 2016). Establishing social presence, or the ability of students to project their personal characteristics into the community of inquiry, thereby presenting themselves to other participants as "real people" (Garrison, Anderson, & Archer, 2000, pp.…”

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Hybrid Education: The Potential of Teaching and Learning with Robot-Mediated Communication

Gleason

Greenhow

2017

OLJ

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Blended learning, which combines online and face-to-face pedagogy, is a fast-growing mode of instruction as universities strive for equitable and alternative pathways to course enrollment, retention, and educational attainment. However, challenges to successfully implementing blended instruction are that social presence, or students' ability to project their personal characteristics into the learning space, is reduced with potential negative effects on student engagement, persistence, and academic achievement. Instructors are experimenting with robotmediated communication (RMC) to address these challenges. Results from a study of RMC at a large public university suggest that it offers advantages over traditionally used videoconferencing, including affordances for fostering students' embodiment in the classroom, their feelings of belonging and trust, and their ability to contribute ideas in authentic ways.

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Hybrid Education: The Potential of Teaching and Learning with Robot-Mediated Communication

Gleason

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2017

OLJ

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“…J. Bell [9] studied the incarnation of distant students in hybrid teaching, from videoconferencing to the use of the telepresence robots. It appears robot getting closer to a feeling of physical presence.…”

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Role of remote presence robot in healthcare facilities

raj¹,

Jogi²,

Omkar³

et al. 2021

J Pharm Med H Sci

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This article is focused mainly on the role of the remote presence robot in health care facilities. This article has a view of the advantages, disadvantages, objectives, uses of RPRT in health care settings, and in different departments, and precautions to be taken while using RPR. In recent decades the usage of remote presence robots has been used in many clinical settings like ICU, emergency departments, medical, surgical, neurological units, and operating rooms. Remote presence robot technology RPRT, is an advanced robotics device technology that enables health care professionals to provide real-time clinical services to patients. This has been increasing in both outpatient and inpatient settings. RPRT in medical education can teach the professional curriculum to students in an interactive way as teachers do. RPR can even enable teachers to teach and interact with students remotely. The world's first hospital to introduce remote presence robots in the university of California, Los Angeles in its neurosurgery intensive care unit. The application of RPRT will increase doctor access for patients, families, and hospital staff in clinical care settings.

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“…Subsequent research demonstrated that telepresence robots can minimize the effects of physical separation during school absences of K-12 students [37]. Multiple studies have also shown ways for telepresence robots to provide better experiences than other distance learning technologies, albeit in university classrooms [2,17,19].…”

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Long-Term, in-the-Wild Study of Feedback about Speech Intelligibility for K-12 Students Attending Class via a Telepresence Robot

Rueben

Syed

London

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

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Telepresence robots offer presence, embodiment, and mobility to remote users, making them promising options for homebound K-12 students. It is difficult, however, for robot operators to know how well they are being heard in remote and noisy classroom environments. One solution is to estimate the operator's speech intelligibility to their listeners in order to provide feedback about it to the operator. This work contributes the first evaluation of a speech intelligibility feedback system for homebound K-12 students attending class remotely. In our four long-term, in-the-wild deployments we found that students speak at different volumes instead of adjusting the robot's volume, and that detailed audio calibration and network latency feedback are needed. We also contribute the first findings about the types and frequencies of multimodal comprehension cues given to homebound students by listeners in the classroom. By annotating and categorizing over 700 cues, we found that the most common cue modalities were conversation turn timing and verbal content. Conversation turn timing cues occurred more frequently overall, whereas verbal content cues contained more information and might be the most frequent modality for negative cues. Our work provides recommendations for telepresence systems that could intervene to ensure that remote users are being heard.

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From 2D to Kubi to Doubles: Designs for Student Telepresence in Synchronous Hybrid Classrooms

Cited by 19 publications

References 5 publications

Hybrid Education: The Potential of Teaching and Learning with Robot-Mediated Communication

Hybrid Education: The Potential of Teaching and Learning with Robot-Mediated Communication

Role of remote presence robot in healthcare facilities

Long-Term, in-the-Wild Study of Feedback about Speech Intelligibility for K-12 Students Attending Class via a Telepresence Robot

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