Effect of displaying a remote operator’s face on a media robot

Person´s body and head orientations are important resources to infer/anticipate the person´s intention. To support these resources for tele-communication, we have been developing a remote control robot that mediates communication. The robot´s head motion is synchronized with the remote operator´s head motion, and his/her face is shown on the robot´s chest display. We compared the effect of the robot´s head and the chest display and the result showed that there is no difference in the effect on anticipation but the chest display is preferred in terms of affinity.