Multimodal interfaces and communication cues for remote collaboration

Tangible Interfaces for Remote Communication and Collaboration

This thesis presents inTouch, a new device enabling long distance communication through touch. inTouch is based on a concept called Synchronized Distributed Physical Objects, which employs telemanipulation technology to create the illusion that distant users are interacting with a shared physical object. I discuss the design and prototype implementation of inTouch, along with control strategies...

Tabletop interfaces for remote collaboration

Speech communication and multimodal interfaces

Within the area of advanced man-machine interaction, speech communication has always played a major role for several decades. The idea of replacing the convential input devices such as buttons and keyboard by voice control and thus increasing the comfort and the input speed considerably, seems that much attractive, that even the quite slow progress of speech technology during those decades coul...

Multimodal Interfaces: Intuitive Communication With Robots

The era in which we live in today is dominated by technology and digital interactions. Consequently, our desire for cutting-edge technology is spawning an increasing demand to continually build new systems. More recently this demand has geared towards building robot systems to be implemented in our everyday lives. Yet, before we can make this idea a reality we must first look at taking strides ...

Remote Collaboration With Augmented and Virtual Reality Interfaces

Some applications require a person in a remote location (the trainer), to instruct another person (the trainee) on how to put together a number of objects according to a precise set of spatial relationships. In this paper we report the results of using a collaborative Mixed Reality application that allows the trainer to manipulate the virtual objects in a virtual environment. At the same time, ...