Proposal of Emphasized Pseudo Expression for Improving the Recognition of the Presence and Contribution of Remote Participants in Cooperative Work

Abstract

In cooperative work environments, many people gather at the same location and a few people join from remote locations. When the remote participants execute a task, other participants (in the shared space) rarely acknowledge their participation in the work. In this study, we propose a pseudo expression which shows the remote person’s collaborative operation (object’s motion) to the other participants in the shared space. In our experiment, we evaluated whether the participant in the shared space can recognize it. The experiment yields the two results: (1) The emphasized pseudo expression can help the recognition of remote participants. (2) The count of the operations performed by remote participants is not recognized by members in the shared space without the use of the emphasized pseudo expression.