Title
Sharing the Positional Relationship with the Bidirectional Telepresence Robots
Abstract
Collaborators are required to share a broad range of information in collaborative work. In physical spatial collaboration such as team dancing, theatrical performance, and team sport, one's behavior should be in accord with the partner's; the relative position in distance and in direction is critically important all the time even when moving. To realize remote physical spatial collaboration, achieving the shared recognition of positional relationship is one of the key issues. In this paper, we propose a setup between two remote sites where each collaborator immerses in the other remote site by a telepresence robot situated in the other site. The telepresence robot is a wheeled platform with a camera attached at man's eye height. It moves in response to the remote user's position and orientation and enables the user to get the first-person view video through a head-mounted display. By using two telepresence robots from both sites, both collaborators can recognize the partner being in front of him/her and can grasp the distance and the orientation of the partner in remote site. In the proposed setup, users can grasp the positional relationship as accurate and quick as the existing fixed views including the bird's-eye view.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CSCWD.2018.8465391
2018 IEEE 22nd International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design ((CSCWD))
Keywords
Field
DocType
remote collaboration,spatial collaboration,physical collaboration,telepresence robot
Situated,GRASP,Task analysis,Computer science,Robot kinematics,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Telerobotics,Distributed computing
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1483-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
4
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Naoki Katayama111.40
Tomoo Inoue217.79
Hiroshi Shigeno316350.88