TEROOS: A wearable avatar to enhance joint activities

Tadakazu Kashiwabara; Hirotaka Osawa; Kazuhiko Shinozawa; Michita Imai

doi:10.1145/2207676.2208345

TEROOS: A wearable avatar to enhance joint activities

Tadakazu Kashiwabara, Hirotaka Osawa, Kazuhiko Shinozawa, Michita Imai

Department of Information and Computer Science

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

53 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

This paper proposes a wearable avatar named TEROOS, which is mounted on a person's shoulder. TEROOS allows the users who wear it and control it to share a vision remotely. Moreover, the avatar has an anthropomorphic face that enables the user who controls it to communicate with people co-located with the user who wears it. We have a field test by using TEROOS and observed that the wearable avatar innovatively assisted the users to communicate during their joint activities such as route navigating and buying goods at a shop. The user controlling TEROOS could give the user wearing it appropriate route instructions on the basis of the situation around TEROOS. In addition, both users could easily identify objects that they discussed. Moreover, shop staff members communicated with the user controlling TEROOS and behaved as they normally would when the user asked questions about the goods.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
Pages	2001-2004
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208345
Publication status	Published - 2012 May 24
Event	30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 - Austin, TX, United States Duration: 2012 May 5 → 2012 May 10

Publication series

Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Other

Other	30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
Country	United States
City	Austin, TX
Period	12/5/5 → 12/5/10

Keywords

Avatar communication
Field test
Shared vision
Social response
Wearable avatar

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Kashiwabara, T., Osawa, H., Shinozawa, K., & Imai, M. (2012). TEROOS: A wearable avatar to enhance joint activities. In Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012 (pp. 2001-2004). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208345

TEROOS : A wearable avatar to enhance joint activities. / Kashiwabara, Tadakazu; Osawa, Hirotaka; Shinozawa, Kazuhiko; Imai, Michita.

Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012. 2012. p. 2001-2004 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Kashiwabara, T, Osawa, H, Shinozawa, K & Imai, M 2012, TEROOS: A wearable avatar to enhance joint activities. in Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings, pp. 2001-2004, 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012, Austin, TX, United States, 12/5/5. https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208345

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