用虚拟替身代言,让不敢开口的人也能参与讨论。
Can You Say This for Me? Speaking Up by Proxy in Co-Located Discussion

- 用户通过结构化输入表达意图,由虚拟代理代为发声。
- 实验显示16人中50%用代理发言,且发言引发多轮互动。
- 适合职场/课堂中因顾虑不敢发声的群体使用。
共处式讨论中的平等参与对协作至关重要,但人们常因预判人际或职业风险而沉默,尤其当需要亲自发声时。我们提出SecondVoice,一种混合现实系统,使用户通过具身虚拟代理发声。通过将言论与发言者分离,SecondVoice在不暴露说话人的情况下,将犹豫的观点引入实时对话。用户通过私密界面以结构化方式表达意图,系统重构内容后由代理代为输出。我们定义了高社交风险下的参与通道设计空间。初步组内研究(N=16)对比完整SecondVoice系统与匿名文本板在两项小组讨论任务中的表现。一半参与者表示使用SecondVoice发出了本不会口头说出的观点,而文本板仅为18.8%。代理传递的观点进入口语对话,并引发多轮群体互动,而文本板发布后未观察到此类现象。参与者认为该通道情境上有价值,但也指出时机、归属权和重述信任方面的权衡。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Equal participation in co-located discussion is important for effective collaboration, yet people often hold back when they anticipate negative interpersonal or professional consequences, especially when raising a point requires voicing it themselves. We present SecondVoice, a mixed-reality system that enables people to speak up through an embodied virtual proxy. By separating what is said from who says it, SecondVoice brings hesitant points into the live spoken discussion without putting the speaker on the spot. Using a private overlay, users specify their intent through a structured specification process rather than composing a full utterance. The system reformulates the input and voices it into the conversation through the proxy. We characterize a design space of participation channels under social risk. In a preliminary within-subject study (N = 16), we compare the complete SecondVoice system with an anonymous text-board channel across two group discussion tasks. Half of participants reported using SecondVoice for a point they did not say aloud, compared with 18.8% for the text board. Proxy-delivered points entered the spoken floor and were followed by multi-turn group engagement, which we did not observe after text-board posts. Participants described the channel as situationally valuable but identified tradeoffs around timing, ownership, and trust in reformulation.
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