Chameleonmask is a telepresence system that shows a remote user’s face on the other user’s face. While most telepresence systems have been designed to provide a remote user’s existence with a teleoperated robot, the system uses a real human as a surrogate for another remote user. To do this, a surrogate user wears a mask-shaped display that shows a remote user’s live face, and a voice channel transmits a remote user’s voice. A surrogate user mimics a remote user by following the remote user’s directions. This design is based on our hypothesis assuming physical and social telepresence can be embodied by such a surrogate human who imitates the remote user. It also eliminates many difficulties of teleoperated robots wandering in the environment. Our pilot study confirmed that people could regard the masked person as a right person.

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References

• Kana Misawa and Jun Rekimoto. 2015. ChameleonMask: Embodied Physical and Social Telepresence using Human Surrogates. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 401-411. PDF
• Kana Misawa, Jun Rekimoto, Wearing Another’s Personality: A Human-Surrogate System with a Telepresence Face, ISWC ’15: Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Osaka, Japan, 2015.PDF
• Kana Misawa, Jun Rekimoto, ChameleonMask: A Human Surrogate System with a Telepresence Face. Siggraph Asia’15: Emerging Technologies, Kobe, Japan, 2015.
• 三澤加奈，暦本純一，ChameleonMask:人の存在感を提示する仮面型テレプレゼンスシステム，日本ソフトウェア科学会インタラクティブシステムとソフトウェアに関する研究会(WISS2015)