TY - GEN
T1 - Practical use of a remote movable avatar robot with an immersive interface for seniors
AU - Izumi, Masahiko
AU - Kikuno, Tomoya
AU - Tokuda, Yutaka
AU - Hiyama, Atsushi
AU - Miura, Takahiro
AU - Hirose, Michitaka
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PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Societal aging is an inevitable social problem in many developed countries. In order to manage this issue, it is necessary to drastically change the welfare security and labor system of relevant societies. We have proposed "mosaic-type work" in which a single "virtual worker" is synthesized based on individual workers and seniors through seamless information sharing. In this paper, we specifically focus on the spatial part of the mosaic, namely, the "spatial mosaic," for enabling seniors to work without the burden of movement. Towards the actualization of this concept, we aimed to develop senior-friendly mobile avatar robots that can fit into seniors' daily lives. First, we analyzed problems of seniors' telecommunication with telepresence robots, and two elemental interfaces, the "physically operable interface" and the "acoustic zooming interface." The former is a senior-friendly interface that the seniors can manipulate with their motion, and the latter enables the user to listen to sounds in a specified area that the user can adjust. In order to discuss integrated interface designs, we conducted two exploratory experiments to evaluate the performance of these systems. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.
AB - Societal aging is an inevitable social problem in many developed countries. In order to manage this issue, it is necessary to drastically change the welfare security and labor system of relevant societies. We have proposed "mosaic-type work" in which a single "virtual worker" is synthesized based on individual workers and seniors through seamless information sharing. In this paper, we specifically focus on the spatial part of the mosaic, namely, the "spatial mosaic," for enabling seniors to work without the burden of movement. Towards the actualization of this concept, we aimed to develop senior-friendly mobile avatar robots that can fit into seniors' daily lives. First, we analyzed problems of seniors' telecommunication with telepresence robots, and two elemental interfaces, the "physically operable interface" and the "acoustic zooming interface." The former is a senior-friendly interface that the seniors can manipulate with their motion, and the latter enables the user to listen to sounds in a specified area that the user can adjust. In order to discuss integrated interface designs, we conducted two exploratory experiments to evaluate the performance of these systems. © 2014 Springer International Publishing.
KW - avatar
KW - information communication technologies (ICT)
KW - interface
KW - Mosaic-type work
KW - seniors
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84903452044
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84903452044#tab=impact
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-07446-7_62
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-07446-7_62
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9783319074450
VL - 8515 LNCS
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 648
EP - 659
BT - Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Aging and Assistive Environments - 8th International Conference, UAHCI 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Proceedings 3
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 8th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction, UAHCI 2014 - Held as Part of 16th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2014
Y2 - 22 June 2014 through 27 June 2014
ER -