Improving visibility of remote gestures in distributed tabletop collaboration

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 95-104

  Yamashita, Naomi ^a   Kaji, Katsuhiko ^b   Kuzuoka, Hideaki ^c   Hirata, Keiji ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Group to group collaboration; Remote gesture; Tabletop; Video mediated communication

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

GROUP COLLABORATION; PHYSICAL OBJECTS; REAL OBJECTS; REMOTE GESTURE; TABLETOP; VIDEO-MEDIATED COMMUNICATIONS;

IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 79955145171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958839     Document Type: Conference Paper

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