IoT Avatar: Turning Various Objects into Avatars

This research proposes an IoT avatar to communicate with users by representing various objects in real space as avatars. The IoT avatar is realized by attaching an Internet-connected IoT avatar device to various objects to turn the object into an IoT avatar. A remote user controls the IoT avatar itself via an IoT avatar device. In this research, a prototype was developed, and its effectiveness was evaluated through evaluation experiments. The results suggest that users who communicate with the IoT avatar generally feel that the IoT avatar has a personality and can communicate with the IoT avatar as if it were a person. In addition, it was found that remote users communicating via the IoT avatar can communicate as if they were the object itself.