Sync Sofa: Sofa-type Side-by-side Communication Experience Based on Multimodal Expression
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Yuki Tajima, Shota Okubo, Tomoaki Konno, Toshiharu Horiuchi, Tatsuya KobayashiAuthors Info & Claims
Yuki Tajima, Shota Okubo, Tomoaki Konno, Toshiharu Horiuchi, Tatsuya KobayashiAuthors Info & ClaimsPages 6961 - 6963
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Lifestyle changes and digitalization have reduced opportunities for face-to-face, intimate communication, which is an indispensable activity for human beings. We have realized a method that allows intimate communication between two persons even though they are faraway from each other by integrating multimodal technologies. Sync Sofa is a new sofa-type communication tool. It senses the partner with a camera, microphones, and accelerometers. The sensed data are cross-modally integrated and then presented to the user through a life-size display, multichannel loudspeakers, and multichannel vibrotactile actuators. We have received positive feedback from many users who have experienced Sync Sofa, such as, "I felt like the other person was really sitting next to me".
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ISBN:9781450392037
DOI:10.1145/3503161
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- Qin Jin,
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