BeThere: 3D mobile collaboration with spatial input

  • Authors:
  • Rajinder S. Sodhi;Brett R. Jones;David Forsyth;Brian P. Bailey;Giuliano Maciocci

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA;Qualcomm Research Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We present BeThere, a proof-of-concept system designed to explore 3D input for mobile collaborative interactions. With BeThere, we explore 3D gestures and spatial input which allow remote users to perform a variety of virtual interactions in a local user's physical environment. Our system is completely self-contained and uses depth sensors to track the location of a user's fingers as well as to capture the 3D shape of objects in front of the sensor. We illustrate the unique capabilities of our system through a series of interactions that allow users to control and manipulate 3D virtual content. We also provide qualitative feedback from a preliminary user study which confirmed that users can complete a shared collaborative task using our system.