The Evaluation of Interviewer's Presentation Styles for Interview Practice with a Communicative Robot

The impact of COVID-19 has led to the shift of job interviews online. There is now a return to face-to-face interviews in important situations, such as the final interview. However, it is still difficult to practice face-to-face interviews, and there is a growing need to practice face-to-face interviews alone or remotely. The problems with practicing interviews alone are that there is no listener in front of the practitioner, so the practitioner does not feel the nervousness about being watched and evaluated. In this paper, we aim to support these issues by using a small communication robot. We conduct experiments under six conditions: practicing alone, with a person face-to-face, with an autonomous robot, with a teleoperated robot, with an avatar remotely, and with a person remotely. Then we examine the influence of the practice style, such as the practitioner's nervousness. The results suggest that the most effective practice is possible when practicing with a person, regardless of whether it is face-to-face or remotely, but that the interview practice support with a small communicative robot is useful in the current social situation.