Hideaki Takeda's Publication
- T. Takahashi and H. Takeda: TelMeA: An
Asynchronous Community System with Avatar-like Agents, in Human Computer
Interaction INTERACT '01, pp. 190–197, Tokyo (2001).
(Paper)
In this paper, we propose an asynchronous community system named
TelMeA, which employs avatarlike agents, or scriptable animated agents, as
the conversation interface. Few of current online community systems are close
to real communities both in reality and in functions. We show with the
proposed system that online community can be more like our real community in
awareness of participants and of community itself. TelMeA realizes the
following functions for asynchronous communication using avatar-like agents:
individual embodied presence, physical communicative cues, interpersonal
spaces, and cooperative reference. Participants can easily identify other
participants with avatar-like agents. And people can understand meanings of
other participants' messages well and become expressive in their messages
with non-verbal behaviours of agents. We performed a preliminary
psychological experiment to clarify functions of avatar-like agents, and
implemented the result in TelMeA. We also evaluated TelMeA by a test use and
showed that TelMeA is natural and useful for asynchronous communities.
Hideaki Takeda (National Institute of Informatics)