Telepresence: integrating shared task and person spaces
Proceedings of the conference on Graphics interface '92
Integration of interpersonal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design and experiments
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Multiparty videoconferencing at virtual social distance: MAJIC design
CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
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A novel method of providing eye-contact for multiple participants in a teleconferencing system is presented. This method proposes a simple idea to fulfil the requirement of eye contact, for two or more local and remote participants simultaneously, by using half mirrors and cameras placed at the common points of the extended lines of gaze of each participant. In contrast to the commonly available one to one eye contact video phone systems, which also use half mirrors, the proposed system has the advantage of serving more than one person at a given location, hence named the multiple person eye contact (MPEC) teleconferencing system. We observed the resultant images by using a preliminary experiment and also building a prototype system. The results from both of these experiments proved the merits of the proposed idea.