TY - GEN
T1 - TEROOS
T2 - 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
AU - Kashiwabara, Tadakazu
AU - Osawa, Hirotaka
AU - Shinozawa, Kazuhiko
AU - Imai, Michita
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Avatar communication
KW - Field test
KW - Shared vision
KW - Social response
KW - Wearable avatar
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U2 - 10.1145/2207676.2208345
DO - 10.1145/2207676.2208345
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84862076037
SN - 9781450310154
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2001
EP - 2004
BT - Conference Proceedings - The 30th ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2012
Y2 - 5 May 2012 through 10 May 2012
ER -