Presenting Data with Social Robots: An Exploration into Conveying Data Videos using an Artificial Physical Narrator

Data Videos (DV) have been used in a diverse set of fields. However, the possibility of utilizing them with social robots for further improving the viewer’s engagement is yet to be examined. While social robots have been used in various presentation-related applications, there is also a lack of design instructions on how to better utilize them. Hence with this early work, we explore the possibility of using social robots as potential DV presenters through; a quantitative analysis of the factors of visible presenters in DVs, and a testing phase of these factors via four group design sessions involving experienced designers. From the DV analysis, we identified 12 unique techniques across four main factors. The observations from the group design sessions show that these findings overlap with the design practices of experienced designers when designing robotic presentations.

Cite: Anuradha Herath, Samar Sallam, Tanvi Vuradi, Yumiko Sakamoto, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani. 2023. Presenting Data with Social Robots: An Exploration into Conveying Data Videos using an Artificial Physical Narrator. In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ‘23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 476–478. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623809.3623970