AmbientTelePresence
May 11th, 2012 | Published in Research
AmbientTelepresence researched the possibility to build up a ambient presence of remote people using a Ubiquitous Computing environment instrumented with embedded devices rather than with video or audio transmission. “Ambient Telepresence is a method to give someone the feeling that someone else is present while they are not co-located”. The project showed that transfer of (selected) ambient events are less obtrusive and allows for a more fine grained, continuous awareness of remote persons. Technically the prototype connects remote sites using the events from the MediaCup and consumer electronics and reproduces an ambient awareness using sound.
Selected Publications
(1999) Ambient Telepresence, In Proceedings of the Workshop on Changing Places, p. 63, pdf
(1999) Ambient Telepresence: Colleague Awareness in Smart Environments, 1. Intl. Workshop on Managing Interactions in Smart Environments (MANSE 99), Dublin, Irland, Dec 1999 & Springer Verlag: Managing Interactions in Smart Environments, S Dobson P. Nixon G. Lacey (ed.), p. 80-88, Springer, url
Start/End:
2000
Research Topics:
CSCW, ambient awareness, user studies
Application and economic dissemination:
Prototype