Porta-person: telepresence for the connected conference room

  • Authors:
  • Nicole Yankelovich;Nigel Simpson;Jonathan Kaplan;Joe Provino

  • Affiliations:
  • Sun Microsystems;Sun Microsystems;Sun Microsystems;Sun Microsystems

  • Venue:
  • CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper describes a telepresence device called Porta-Person. This is the first project in a larger initiative known as the Connected Conference Room, which aims to improve the user experience for remote people connected to meetings taking place in conference rooms. The Porta-Person is designed to enhance a sense of social presence for remote meeting participants. It does this by providing a high-fidelity audio connection and a remotely controlled telepresence display with video or animation.