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We present See-Through Face Display, an eye-contact display system designed to enhance gaze awareness in both human-to-human and human-to-avatar communication. The system addresses the limitations of existing gaze correction methods by combining a ...

Telepresence robots offer potential enhancements to real-time classroom participation and social interaction for remotely located children. This mixed-method study, including observation and questionnaires, examines the safety and effectiveness of these ...

Telepresence robots offer great opportunities for children with long-term illnesses to continue attending school. Consequently, they are already used if children are absent for long periods. When designing such systems, the privacy of various ...

Participants of one-to-many videoconferencing calls often experience a significant loss of affective feedback due to the limitations of the medium. To address this problem, we present Co-Here: a videoconferencing module that renders participant-driven ...

Online games represent a rapidly growing and competitive global market for technology firms. Games are viewed as places where people can temporarily escape from reality. However, it is unclear how game escapism fosters game experience and game ...

• We examined how game escapism fosters game experiences and game use.
• Uses and gratification theory was used to build the research model.
• Game escapism enhances enjoyment, control, concentration, and fantasy.
• Enjoyment and ...

The museum is changing from a place of passive consumption to a place of interactive experiences, opening up new ways of engaging with exhibits and others. As a promising direction, this paper explores the potential of telepresence stations in the ...

Drones have performed various tasks, such as surveillance, photography, agriculture, and package delivery. However, these tasks typically involve drones simply observing or capturing information from their surroundings without physically ...

One of the most important tasks of the current decade is the mass introduction of telepresence services, including the use of holographic copies of a person, robotic avatars, manipulator devices, as well as the implementation and deployment of their ...

Material handling loco-manipulation is heavily present in humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR) efforts. Consider a scenario requiring human expertise to transcend the physical location of the human body; an approach—harnessing the ...

As with all remotely controlled robots, successful teleoperation of social and telepresence robots relies greatly on operator situation awareness; however, existing situation awareness measurements, most being originally created for military purposes, are ...

Clothing is an important part of human appearance but challenging to model in photorealistic avatars. In this work we present avatars with dynamically moving loose clothing that can be faithfully driven by sparse RGB-D inputs as well as body and face ...

Outdoor activities, such as traveling and sightseeing, become challenging to realize when individuals are geographically distant. This paper introduces Syn-Leap, a symmetrical wearable telepresence system designed to allow multiple users to explore ...

This paper proposes a demonstration of Periscope, a robotic camera system that allows two people to collaborate remotely on physical tasks. With Periscope, a worker co-located with a robotic arm can receive guidance from a remote helper who observes the ...

In video remote communication, the Gaze Cue, which visualizes the direction of a partner’s gaze, effectively enhances topic sharing by facilitating mutual gaze between users. However, since this Gaze Cue appears within the user’s field of view, viewers ...

Mixed-perspective, combining egocentric (first-person) and exocentric (third-person) viewpoints, have been shown to improve the collaborative experience in remote settings. Such experiences allow remote users to switch between different viewpoints to ...

We propose WeightMorphy, a hand-mounted system designed to improve teleoperation manipulation’s operability and immersive experience by changing the moment of inertia. This system reduces the discrepancy between the shape of the virtual hand and its ...

Real-time 3D perception through RGB-D cameras and its rendering inside modern mixed reality (MR) devices have been shown to enhance a user’s sense of presence and immersion in a remote scene. In telepresence applications, it allows the operator to ...

• Based on the stimulus-organism-response, this study aims at explaining impulsive buying behavior in the live-streaming context.

Responding to the call for more studies that dig deeper into the mechanism linking live-streaming’s (SC live-streaming) distinctive characteristics with impulsive buying behaviour, this study adopts the widely-accepted stimulus–...

We present ChameleonControl, a real-human teleoperation system for scalable remote instruction in hands-on classrooms. In contrast to existing video or AR/VR-based remote hands-on education, ChameleonControl uses a real human as a surrogate of a remote ...

This paper presents a novel architecture to generate a world model in terms of mesh from a continuous image stream with depth information extracted from a robot’s ego-vision camera. We propose two algorithms for planar and non-planar mesh ...