Mixed reality participants in smart meeting rooms and smart home environments

  • Authors:
  • Anton Nijholt;Job Zwiers;Jan Peciva

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Twente, CTIT, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;University of Twente, CTIT, Enschede, The Netherlands 7500 AE;Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic 61266

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Human---computer interaction requires modeling of the user. A user profile typically contains preferences, interests, characteristics, and interaction behavior. However, in its multimodal interaction with a smart environment the user displays characteristics that show how the user, not necessarily consciously, verbally and nonverbally provides the smart environment with useful input and feedback. Especially in ambient intelligence environments we encounter situations where the environment supports interaction between the environment, smart objects (e.g., mobile robots, smart furniture) and human participants in the environment. Therefore it is useful for the profile to contain a physical representation of the user obtained by multi-modal capturing techniques. We discuss the modeling and simulation of interacting participants in a virtual meeting room, we discuss how remote meeting participants can take part in meeting activities and they have some observations on translating research results to smart home environments.