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Slide deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1awhbezQT1wPdlwF97r2qGOYPmQfYTAuBwzr3YnwnE8o/edit?usp=sharing
The "Double" telepresence robot
- https://www.doublerobotics.com/
- Anyone can test-drive a demo robot on the vendor's website.
- The Double is a remote control robot that allows someone to virtually move around an office environment as though they were present in the office. It is a lightweight robot on wheels that uses an iPad as a virtual video talking head. From a supported web browser, the person controlling the Double can control the movement, hear and see the robot's surroundings, and can talk via a speaker. The person controlling the Double has a wide angle forward view and a picture-in picture view of what they look like to others in the iPad screen, and can also look down to view what is surrounding the foot of the robot.
- Computer Science Professor Judy Olson, and her PHD student Veronica Ahumada Newhart, have agreed to allow OIT to borrow a Double to evaluate for a couple of months because they are interested in how we find it to be useful to inform their research.
- We will be setting up a pilot test program in OIT to evaluate how we might use the Double to enhance the effectiveness and collaboration of remote co-workers.
- Tips for effective use of the Double for remote work/telecommuting: https://www.doublerobotics.com/business/Double-Guide-to-Telecommuting.pdf