Title
With a little help from a holographic friend: the OpenIMPRESS mixed reality telepresence toolkit for remote collaboration systems
Abstract
Remote mixed reality (MR) collaboration systems allow for multimodal, real-time support from remote experts. We present our open toolkit that provides a flexible end-to-end solution for building such systems using off-the-shelf hardware. From related work, three core design aspects have been identified: 1) the independence of the viewpoint that the visitor (the remote expert) can take in relation to position and viewpoint of the visitee, 2) the immersiveness of the presentation technology for visitor and visitee, and 3) the extent to which the visitor's body is represented in the visitee's environment. This paper describes the implementation of our system, which includes these aspects. In a study aimed at validating whether we implemented these core aspects to good effect, conducted with a collaborative puzzle application built with our toolkit, we examine how variations of these aspects contribute to usability, performance and social presence related metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3281505.3281542
VRST
Keywords
Field
DocType
Mixed Reality, Telepresence, Embodiment, Collaboration
Simulation,Computer science,Usability,Human–computer interaction,Mixed reality,User interface,Visitor pattern
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6086-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
23
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Kolkmeier1133.38
Emiel Harmsen200.34
Sander Giesselink300.34
dennis reidsma4194.20
Mariët Theune537943.91
Dirk Heylen686789.11