Visual Guidance for User Placement in Avatar-Mediated Telepresence between Dissimilar Spaces

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Autores principales: Yang, Dongseok, Kang, Jiho, Kim, Taehei, Lee, Sung-Hee
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Publicado: 2022
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author Yang, Dongseok
Kang, Jiho
Kim, Taehei
Lee, Sung-Hee
author_facet Yang, Dongseok
Kang, Jiho
Kim, Taehei
Lee, Sung-Hee
contents Rapid advances in technology gradually realize immersive mixed-reality (MR) telepresence between distant spaces. This paper presents a novel visual guidance system for avatar-mediated telepresence, directing users to optimal placements that facilitate the clear transfer of gaze and pointing contexts through remote avatars in dissimilar spaces, where the spatial relationship between the remote avatar and the interaction targets may differ from that of the local user. Representing the spatial relationship between the user/avatar and interaction targets with angle-based interaction features, we assign recommendation scores of sampled local placements as their maximum feature similarity with remote placements. These scores are visualized as color-coded 2D sectors to inform the users of better placements for interaction with selected targets. In addition, virtual objects of the remote space are overlapped with the local space for the user to better understand the recommendations. We examine whether the proposed score measure agrees with the actual user perception of the partner's interaction context and find a score threshold for recommendation through user experiments in virtual reality (VR). A subsequent user study in VR investigates the effectiveness and perceptual overload of different combinations of visualizations. Finally, we conduct a user study in an MR telepresence scenario to evaluate the effectiveness of our method in real-world applications.
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spellingShingle Visual Guidance for User Placement in Avatar-Mediated Telepresence between Dissimilar Spaces
Yang, Dongseok
Kang, Jiho
Kim, Taehei
Lee, Sung-Hee
Human-Computer Interaction
Graphics
Rapid advances in technology gradually realize immersive mixed-reality (MR) telepresence between distant spaces. This paper presents a novel visual guidance system for avatar-mediated telepresence, directing users to optimal placements that facilitate the clear transfer of gaze and pointing contexts through remote avatars in dissimilar spaces, where the spatial relationship between the remote avatar and the interaction targets may differ from that of the local user. Representing the spatial relationship between the user/avatar and interaction targets with angle-based interaction features, we assign recommendation scores of sampled local placements as their maximum feature similarity with remote placements. These scores are visualized as color-coded 2D sectors to inform the users of better placements for interaction with selected targets. In addition, virtual objects of the remote space are overlapped with the local space for the user to better understand the recommendations. We examine whether the proposed score measure agrees with the actual user perception of the partner's interaction context and find a score threshold for recommendation through user experiments in virtual reality (VR). A subsequent user study in VR investigates the effectiveness and perceptual overload of different combinations of visualizations. Finally, we conduct a user study in an MR telepresence scenario to evaluate the effectiveness of our method in real-world applications.
title Visual Guidance for User Placement in Avatar-Mediated Telepresence between Dissimilar Spaces
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.09542