Title :
AR-based Video-Mediated Communication: A Social Presence Enhancing Experience
Author :
de Souza Almeida, Igor ; Oikawa, Marina Atsumi ; Carres, Jordi Polo ; Miyazaki, Jun ; Kato, Hirokazu ; Billinghurst, Mark
Author_Institution :
Marina Atsumi Oikawa, Jordi Polo Carres, Hirokazu Kato Nara Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Nara, Japan
Abstract :
Video-mediated communication systems attempt toprovide users with a channel that could bring out the "feeling"of face-to-face communication. Among the many qualities thesesystems aim for, a high level of Social Presence isunquestionably a desirable one; however, little effort has beenmade to improve upon the user\´s perception of "presence". Wepropose an AR approach to enhance social presence for video mediatedsystems by allowing one user to be present in theother user\´s video image. We conducted a preliminary pilotstudy with 10 participants coupled in 5 pairs to evaluate oursystem and compare with the traditional video-chat setup.Results indicated that our system has higher degree of socialpresence compared to traditional video-chat systems. Thisconclusion was supported by the positive feedback from thesubjects.
Keywords :
augmented reality; computer mediated communication; user interfaces; video communication; video signal processing; AR-based video-mediated communication systems; augmented reality; face-to-face communication; social presence enhancing experience; video-chat systems; Augmented reality; Cameras; Face; Games; Merging; Streaming media; Training; augmented reality; social presence; video-mediated communication;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual and Augmented Reality (SVR), 2012 14th Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Rio Janiero
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-1929-4
