You are the Mind of a Robot: Tele-existence for Adults and Children

摘要

We carried two experiments of tele-existence. We provide a real-time illusion to humans that they exist in another place. The other place is the real world, although now their new body is a robot. In our experiments, we used virtual-reality to transport the subject to the body of a soccer-playing robot. In this new visions of human-computer interaction, we differentiate the experience between that experimented by adults and that experimented by children. We observed that the experience radically changes the adults' views regarding tele-existence and robotics. On the other hand, children become rapidly transported to the body of the robot.