Is This Seat Taken? Behavioural Analysis of the Telethrone: A Novel Situated Telepresence Display

TY - GEN

T1 - Is This Seat Taken? Behavioural Analysis of the Telethrone: A Novel Situated Telepresence Display

AU - Rae, John

AU - O'Hare, John

AU - Bendall, Robert C. A

AU - Graham, Thomas

AU - Weir, Bruce

AU - Roberts, David

PY - 2016/10/7

Y1 - 2016/10/7

N2 - We present research with two novel components; a system which may improve current small group telecommunication, and an experiment to test the efficacy. Telethrone projects a remote user onto a chair, bringing them into your space. The chair acts as a situated display which can support multi party head gaze, eye gaze, and body torque such that each observer knows where the projected user is looking. It is simpler to implement and cheaper than current systems. Our primary contribution is a counterbalanced repeated measures experiment to analyse gaze interactions. We analyse the multiple independent viewpoint support offered by the system to test if it demonstrates advantage over a set-up which shows a single view to both observers; in this results are inconclusive. Self-report questionnaire data suggests that the current implementation still gives the impression of being a display despite its situated nature although participants did feel the remote user was in the space with them. Results from the eye gaze analysis suggest that the remote user is not excluded from three way poker game-play.© 2018, The Author(s), Published by The Eurographics Association. This is an author produced version of a paper published in CAT-EGVE 2016 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL REALITY AND TELEXISTANCE AND EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

AB - We present research with two novel components; a system which may improve current small group telecommunication, and an experiment to test the efficacy. Telethrone projects a remote user onto a chair, bringing them into your space. The chair acts as a situated display which can support multi party head gaze, eye gaze, and body torque such that each observer knows where the projected user is looking. It is simpler to implement and cheaper than current systems. Our primary contribution is a counterbalanced repeated measures experiment to analyse gaze interactions. We analyse the multiple independent viewpoint support offered by the system to test if it demonstrates advantage over a set-up which shows a single view to both observers; in this results are inconclusive. Self-report questionnaire data suggests that the current implementation still gives the impression of being a display despite its situated nature although participants did feel the remote user was in the space with them. Results from the eye gaze analysis suggest that the remote user is not excluded from three way poker game-play.© 2018, The Author(s), Published by The Eurographics Association. This is an author produced version of a paper published in CAT-EGVE 2016 - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL REALITY AND TELEXISTANCE AND EUROGRAPHICS SYMPOSIUM ON VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self- archiving policy. The final published version (version of record) is available online at the link below. Some minor differences between this version and the final published version may remain. We suggest you refer to the final published version should you wish to cite from it.

U2 - 10.2312/egve.20161441

DO - 10.2312/egve.20161441

M3 - Conference contribution

BT - ICAT-EGVE 2016 - International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments

A2 - Reiners, Dirk

A2 - Iwai, Daisuke

A2 - Steinicke, Frank

PB - The Eurographics Association

ER -