CamBlend: an object focused collaboration tool

  • Authors:
  • James Norris;Holger Schnädelbach;Guoping Qiu

  • Affiliations:
  • Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;Mixed Reality Lab, Computer Science, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom;University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

CamBlend is a new focus-in-context panoramic video collaboration system designed to facilitate the interaction with and around objects in a lightweight, flexible package. As well as the ability to view very high resolution local and remote video that covers a full 180#176; field of view, the system contains a number of tools which facilitate bi-directional pointing between two remote spaces. In the first quasi-naturalistic exploratory study on a focus-in-context video system, we show a number of unique object referencing behaviours, including un-intentional or 'implicit' pointing and a number of scenarios where this was advantageous. Additionally the study highlighted some of the problems inherent in aligning between screen-based and real-world perspectives.