AUTONOMOUS TELEOPERATION AND COGNITIVE LOAD 1 The Benefits of Autonomous Navigation in Telepresence Robots and its Effect on Cognitive Load Grace Pan 1 , Thea Weiss 2 , Seyed Amirhosein Mohaddesi 3 , John W. Szura 4 , & Jeffrey L. Krichmar 1,3 1 Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine 2 Department of Psychology, University of Washington 3 Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine 4 School of Education, University of California, Irvine Corresponding author: Grace Pan Email: gypan1@uci.edu