Towards mobile embodied 3D avatar as telepresence vehicle

Yutaka Tokuda, Atsushi Hiyama, Takahiro Miura, Tomohiro Tanikawa, Michitaka Hirose

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Abstract

In this paper, we present mobile embodied 3D avatar to shift a rich experience of avatar from a virtual world to our real life with a new style of telepresence. Conventional telepresence research have focused on the exact recreation of face-to-face communication at a fixed position in a specialized room, so there have been much less research on a life-sized mobile telepresence system despite many off-the-shelf mobile telepresence robots available. We propose various scalable holographic displays to visualize a life-sized avatar in an actual life. In addition, we introduce architecture to control embodied avatar according to user?s intention by extending popular architecture for a multimodal virtual human, namely SAIBA. Our primitive prototype system was tested with 5 simple avatar animations to embody with a wheeled platform robot and a lifesized transparent holographic display and proved realistic avatar?s movement complying user?s intention and the situation at the remote location of avatar. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUniversal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Applications and Services for Quality of Life - 7th International Conference, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages671-680
Volume8011 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783642391934
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Design Methods, Tools, and Interaction Techniques for eInclusion, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013 - Las Vegas, NV, United States
Duration: 21 Jul 201326 Jul 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8011 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: Design Methods, Tools, and Interaction Techniques for eInclusion, UAHCI 2013, Held as Part of 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityLas Vegas, NV
Period21/07/1326/07/13

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Research Keywords

  • avatar
  • interaction techniques
  • mobility
  • multimodal interaction
  • platforms and metaphors
  • SAIBA
  • telepresence
  • telework
  • transparent display

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