1. Proceedings
  2. I3M
  3. 2018
  4. VARE
  5. 10.46354/i3m.2018.vare.018

Acoustic AR-TA agent using footsteps in corresponding to audience members' participating attitudes

  • a Yuki Kitagishi  
  • bTomoko Yonezawa  
  • aKansai University, Graduate School of Informatics
  • bKansai University, Faculty of Informatics
Cite as
Y. Kitagishi, T. Yonezawa (2018). Acoustic AR-TA agent using footsteps in corresponding to audience members'
participating attitudes. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference of The Virtual And Augmented Reality In Education (VARE 2018), pp. 113-122. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2018.vare.018

Abstract

We propose an acoustic AR-TA agent (AATA) that reacts to the audience members' participating attitudes in a
lecture. In one-to-many communications such as lectures with over 100 audiences, some do not focus on the lecture. In such cases, it is difficult to make them pay attention to the lecture. To improve such audience members' attitudes, we propose an AATA expressed by moving localized sounds of footsteps using a direction-controllable parametric speaker. Based on the hypothesis that the footsteps approaching to an audience member will indirectly notice the audience her/his problematic attitudes, we conducted two experiments. From the results, the participants felt as through someone walked around them when they perceived the movement of footsteps, as if the walk of the lecturer or TA was the source of the footsteps. Accordingly, we discuss the possibility of the AATA's movement to warn to the audiences.

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