Life as a Robot (at CHI)
Evan Golub, Brenna McNally, Becky Lewittes, Alazandra Shorter, The Kids of Kidsteam · 2017
In an ideal world, children and adults could travel anywhere as easily as they travel to work or school. Geography has stood in the way of this, until now. This paper's authors, a design team of adults and children, discuss their experiences inhabiting a telepresence robot at CHI from ~2500 miles away through six vignettes detailing their experiences. This paper also describes results from two design sessions focused on improving telepresence conference experiences. We reflect on what these experiences and outcomes mean for CHI and telepresence more broadly. This alt.chi work will be presented via telepresence.