Conferencing room for telepresence with remote participants

  • Authors:
  • Eunyee Koh

  • Affiliations:
  • Adobe Systems Inc, San Jose, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Supporting group work
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Many HCI researchers have demonstrated that web and video conferencing do a poor job of preserving nonverbal cues and may not be comparable to person-to-person meetings because it changes the nature of information processing and imposes more cognitive burden by users. However, many industrial conferences and meetings are moving from person-to-person communication to device-to-device communication including phone/web/video conferencing because of benefits like travel cost/time reduction, convenience, and to leverage the global workforce. To overcome limitations of device-to-device communication, novel commercial devices and research prototypes, such as spatial audio/speaker, high-definition and spatial video/display, physical surrogates, or interactive digital whiteboard, have been developed. We would like to understand better about effectiveness of these new devices for conferencing, and drive suggestion and direction for future conferencing room environment.