SphereAvatar: A situated display to represent a remote collaborator

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2551-2560

  Oyekoya, Oyewole ^a   Steptoe, William ^a   Steed, Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Avatars; Mixed reality; Remote collaboration; Spherical displays; Telepresence; Telerobotics

Indexed keywords

AVATARS; MIXED REALITY; REMOTE COLLABORATION; TELE-ROBOTICS; TELEPRESENCE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

EID: 84862075874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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