Demonstrating Virtual Teamwork with Synchrobots: A Robot-Mediated Approach to Improving Connectedness
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Abstract
The increased prevalence of online collaborative work, through necessity or preference, is accompanied by measurable drops in satisfaction, creativity and energy, often termed “zoom fatigue.” As loss of physical co-presence and associated nonverbal communication are identified as contributors, we introduce Synchrobots – robots designed to channel human biophysiology for group connectedness. We propose an Interactivity demo wherein two participants perform an online problem-solving task while wearing physiological sensors and holding a Synchrobot as it physically renders a translation of their partner’s heartrate. The setup involves two stations, each with a laptop running Zoom, a set of wearable sensors recording heart rate, respiratory rate, and electrodermal activity, and a Synchrobot. After the problem-solving task, we will invite participants to reflect on how connected they felt with each other as well as their satisfaction with the collaboration quality. Participants may consent to release this data for later inclusion as part of a study.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".