2004 Proceeding- General Chairs:
- Gopal Pingali,
- Frank Nack,
- Hari Sundaram
- Sponsor:
- sigmm
It gives us great pleasure to welcome you to the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Effective Telepresence. This workshop builds upon the ACM SIGMM 2003 Workshop on Experiential Telepresence (ETP03) held in conjunction with ACM Multimedia last year. Last year's workshop and panel involved a lively debate on what the notion of an experience implies. One of the conclusions was that we are in need of models for knowledge spaces that facilitate new forms of creativity, knowledge exploration and social relationships.
We would like this workshop to facilitate a more focused debate, namely about the means of experience in the context of seamless remote interaction. While sophisticated systems for distributed collaboration and immersive presence have emerged from time to time, their acceptance has been limited. The most commonly cited problems with such systems are that they are too difficult to set up and use, and that their value is not commensurate with cost.
The challenge, then, is to develop effective telepresence systems that offer appropriate interfaces and tools to enable seamless interaction with remote people and events. This has been recognized as one of the "grand challenges" for the multimedia community. The design and measures of performance of such systems should be centred on end-user experience. The goal of this workshop is to foster a community of researchers advancing the various technical and socio-technical aspects of telepresence. This workshop aims to bring together a good mix of people from academia, industry, and government, and spanning various disciplines including the sciences, engineering, and the arts.
An event of this kind is only as good as the quality of the people it can bring together. We have been fortunate to have a diverse program committee of research leaders of the highest expertise and reputation, who showed enthusiasm and support for this workshop. Our program this year includes six papers for oral presentation and nine papers for demo presentation. Together, they should provide an excellent snapshot of the state of research today in telepresence and we hope you like this mix of presentations. We also have three special sessions - two keynote talks and a panel session - based on invitations to some world-renowned people. The keynote talks by Jaron Lanier and Duffie White, and the panel on "Directions and frameworks for effective telepresence" should go a long way in stimulating and guiding future research in this area. This year, we invited workshop participants to post questions and discussions to the workshop website starting several weeks before the workshop. We hope participants find this leading to a more interesting debate in the panel session.
Proceeding Downloads
Experiences of using wearable computers for ambient telepresence and remote interaction
We present our experiences of using wearable computers for providing an ambient form of telepresence to members of an e-meeting. Using a continuously running e-meeting session as a testbed for formal and informal studies and observations, this form of ...
Use of telepresence in informal broadcasting over the internet
We had trial broadcast for a university graduation ceremony with telepresence. One of the graduates carried a laptop computer with a camera with him, and we broadcast the video image from the camera on the Internet. The audience on the network ...
Teaching with an intelligent electronic chalkboard
This paper presents E-Chalk, a software system which transforms a large touch sensitive screen into a smart teaching tool. The instructor writes on the screen using a special stylus and the software emulates a classical chalkboard. The lecturer can ...
Audio-based head motion synthesis for Avatar-based telepresence systems
In this paper, a data-driven audio-based head motion synthesis technique is presented for avatar-based telepresence systems. First, head motion of a human subject speaking a custom corpus is captured, and the accompanying audio features are extracted. ...
Visual contextualization and activity monitoring for networked telepresence
The context of an environment is denied by a complex interrelationship between past, present, and future events and of the events' surroundings. While the present provides a current and immediate interpretation of our surroundings and enables immediate ...
Feellight: a communication device for distant nonverbal exchange
This paper describes a methodology of a bidirectional I/O device design and introduces a unique nterface <i>FeelLight</i>, which enables a simple and seamless communication among people in istant places. The authors focused on the following key issues ...
3D visual component based approach for effective telepresence systems
This paper treats the usefulness of 3D visual component based approach for effective telepresence systems. The research group of the author has already proposed a 3D visual component based software development system called IntelligentBox. ...
VITA: visual interaction tool for archaeology (demo)
VITA (Visual Interaction Tool for Archaeology) is an experimental collaborative mixed reality system for offsite visualization of an archaeological dig. Our demonstration of VITA allows multiple users to visualize the dig site in a mixed reality ...
Interactive 3D teleconferencing with user-adaptive views
We present a system and techniques for synthesizing views for three dimensional video teleconferencing. Instead of performing complex 3D scene acquisition, we decided to trade storage/hardware for computation, i.e., using more cameras. While it is ...
Heterogeneous media events processing systems
A key challenge to the successful application of the data modeling, storage and retrieval is the processing of relevant media to determine the events that are represented by them. Towards this goal, we are developing a heterogeneous media events ...
Location-based communication services
Our demo shows end-user-oriented location-based services based on application-layer, human understandable location descriptions.
Asymmetric collaboration through tele-presence
- Ashutosh Morde,
- Carlos Correa,
- Jun Hou,
- S. Kicha Ganapathy,
- Allan Krebs,
- Ivan Marsic,
- Mourad Bouzit,
- Lawrence Rabiner
A heterogeneous distributed system that enables people in geographically separate locations to share a common workspace is presented. In particular, the applicability of such a system to the notion of asymmetric collaboration is illustrated by a chess ...
S3-R1: the IBM smart surveillance system-release 1
- Arun Hampapur,
- Lisa Brown,
- Jonathan Connell,
- Norman Haas,
- Max Lu,
- Hans Merkl,
- Sharat Pankanti,
- Andrew Senior,
- Chiao-Fe Shu,
- Yingli Tian
One of the key components of tele-presence systems is automatic awareness of the remote environment. This very same capability of automatic situation awareness is currently being developed and deployed in the context of the next generation smart ...
Projector-camera systems for telepresence
Projector-camera systems provide tools for telepresence that enable novel experiences not possible with currently available schemes for remote interaction including video conferencing systems, virtual reality, and augmented reality systems. Projector-...
Visual end user configuration of hybrid user interfaces
Hybrid user interfaces are a promising paradigm for human-computer interaction, employing a range of displays and devices. However, most experimental hybrid user interfaces use a relatively rigid configuation. Our demo explores the possibilities of end ...