Audio-video demonstration by Norman P. Jouppi, Wayne Mack,
Subu Iyer, Stan Thomas and April Slayden.
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Background: Physical travel can be expensive and time-consuming.
For some people with disabilities, physical travel may not
even be possible. The goal of the Mutually-immersive Mobile
Telepresence Project is to provide a compelling alternative
experience to physical travel that is also economically advantageous.
The experience should be compelling for both the remote person
as well as the people he or she is visiting: i.e., both mutually-immersive
as well as allowing mobility.
How it works: Mutually immersive Mobile Telepresence
uses a teleoperated robotic surrogate to visit remote locations
as a substitute for physical travel. Our goal is to recreate
to the greatest extent practical, both for the user and the
people at the remote location, the sensory experience relevant
for business interactions of the user actually being in the
remote location. The system includes multi-channel bidirectional
video and audio on a mobile surrogate as well as haptic feedback.
We are currently working on Model 2, a second-generation surrogate
that preserves the height and sitting/standing posture of
the user.
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