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Timo Koskela, Mounib Mazouzi, Paula Alavesa, Minna Pakanen, Ilya Minyaev, Eero Paavola, and Jere Tuliniemi. 2018. AVATAREX: Telexistence System based on Virtual Avatars. In Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference (AH ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 13, 1–8. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174926

AVATAREX : telexistence system based on virtual avatars

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Author: Koskela, Timo1; Mazouzi, Mounib1; Alavesa, Paula1;
Organizations: 1Center for Ubiquitous Computing, FI-90014 University of Oulu Finland
Format: article
Version: accepted version
Access: open
Online Access: PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.7 MB)
Persistent link: http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2020052639150
Language: English
Published: Association for Computing Machinery, 2018
Publish Date: 2020-05-26
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The telexistence technology can provide many kinds of benefits for the society. These include new ways of remote work, empowerment of handicapped and elderly people, and creation of new immersive and environmentally-friendly forms of tourism, travel, shopping, sports and leisure time activities. In this paper, we introduce AVATAREX, a telexistence system based on virtual avatars. AVATAREX provides means for connecting users that are simultaneously occupying the same space in the real world and its virtual replica. Using an indoor prototype implementation of AVATAREX and a simple collaborative game, we investigated how users experience co-presence in a telexistence system based on virtual avatars and measured the performance of AVATAREX on high-end smart glasses. Based on our findings, users wearing virtual reality gear reported a stronger sense of co-presence compared to users wearing augmented reality gear. Unexpectedly, users wearing smart glasses reported a lower sense of co-presence than users using a tablet for augmented reality experience.

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ISBN Print: 978-1-4503-5415-8
Article number: A13
DOI: 10.1145/3174910.3174926
OADOI: https://oadoi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174926
Host publication: AH '18 Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference
Conference: Augmented Human International Conference
Type of Publication: A4 Article in conference proceedings
Field of Science: 213 Electronic, automation and communications engineering, electronics
Subjects:
augmented reality
mixed reality
user study
virtual reality
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Funding: The Strategic Research Council at the Academy of Finland is acknowledged for financial support of the COMBAT project (293389). This work has also been supported by the Tekes VIRPA-C project and the 6Aika: Open City Model as Open Innovation Platform project (A71143) funded by the ERDF and the City of Oulu under the Six City Strategy program.
Academy of Finland Grant Number: 293389
Detailed Information: 293389 (Academy of Finland Funding decision)
Copyright information: © 2018 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive Version of Record was published in AH '18 Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference, https://doi.org/10.1145/3174910.3174926.