Physical Telepresence: Shape Capture and Display for Embodied, Computer-mediated Remote Collaboration
Venue
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM (2014), pp. 461-470
Publication Year
2014
Authors
Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer, Alex Olwal, Hiroshi Ishii
BibTeX
Abstract
We propose a new approach to Physical Telepresence, based on shared workspaces with
the ability to capture and remotely render the shapes of people and objects. In
this paper, we describe the concept of shape transmission, and propose interaction
techniques to manipulate remote physical objects and physical renderings of shared
digital content. We investigate how the representation of user's body parts can be
altered to amplify their capabilities for teleoperation. We also describe the
details of building and testing prototype Physical Telepresence workspaces based on
shape displays. A preliminary evaluation shows how users are able to manipulate
remote objects, and we report on our observations of several different manipulation
techniques that highlight the expressive nature of our system.
