uCom: spatial displays for visual awareness of remote locations

  • Authors:
  • Ana Luisa Santos;V. Michael Bove, Jr.

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

uCom enables remote users to be visually aware of each other using "spatial displays"' live views of a remote space assembled according to an estimate of the remote space's layout. Remote video views from multiple viewpoints are shown individually or in a 3D collage representation that is faithful to the scene geometry. A multi-display setup integrates always-on visual connections of a remote site into the local space. This work applies an innovative spatial context to visual awareness between remote locations.