Telepresence: Understanding People as Content

  • Authors:
  • Graham Walker;Jerry Bowskill;Mike Hollier;Andrew McGrath

  • Affiliations:
  • BT Advanced Communications, Technology Centre, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath Suffolk, UK, graham.r.walker@bt.com;BT Advanced Communications, Technology Centre, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath Suffolk, UK, jerry.bowskill@bt.com;BT Advanced Communications, Technology Centre, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath Suffolk, UK, mike.hollier@bt.com;BT Advanced Communications, Technology Centre, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath Suffolk, UK, andrew.mcgrath@bt.com

  • Venue:
  • Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

BT is a leading international supplier of telepresence in the form of telephony. Tele-presence enables “people as content”, and there are rapidly developing and wide-ranging opportunities for broadband, mobile, multimedia telepresence services. This paper outlines work in progress at BT Adastral Park, including projects on large-scale inhabited applications, networked immersion or “through-the-screen” conferencing, and wearable computing for ubiquitous telepresence. We conclude that research into future services requires a reappraisal of traditional methods, with an emphasis on multidisciplinary collaboration.