My Being to Your Place, Your Being to My Place: Co-present Robotic Avatars Create Illusion of Living Together
My Being to Your Place, Your Being to My Place: Co-present Robotic Avatars Create Illusion of Living Together
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10.1145/3210240.3210348
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2018-06
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Bumsoo Kang;Inseok Hwang;Jinho Lee;Seungchul Lee;Taegyeong Lee;Youngjae Chang;Min Kyung Lee
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Bumsoo Kang;Inseok Hwang;Jinho Lee;Seungchul Lee;Taegyeong Lee;Youngjae Chang;Min Kyung Lee
工作离散家庭的人们一直严重依赖尖端的面对面沟通服务。尽管它们易于使用且无处不在，但共同生活的体验仍然远远无法与远程面对面交流的体验相比。我们设想，使远程人员能够在空间上叠加在自己的生活空间中，这将是促进伪共同生活互动性的突破。我们提出了 HomeMeld，这是一种零麻烦的自移动机器人系统，作为共存的化身，为那些不由自主地分居的人创造一种持久的共同生活的幻觉。关键挑战是 1) 两个异构平面图之间的连续空间映射，2) 在机器人有限的可操作性下，导航机器人化身以实时反映对方的存在。我们设计了功能等效的位置和方向的概念，以将一个人的存在转化为异构平面图中另一个人的存在。我们还开发了预测路径扭曲来无缝同步对方的存在。我们与真实参与者进行了广泛的实验和部署研究。
People in work-separated families have been heavily relying on cutting-edge face-to-face communication services. Despite their ease of use and ubiquitous availability, experiences in living together are still far incomparable to those through remote face-to-face communication. We envision that enabling a remote person to be spatially superposed in one's living space would be a breakthrough to catalyze pseudo living-together interactivity. We propose HomeMeld, a zero-hassle self-mobile robotic system serving as a co-present avatar to create a persistent illusion of living together for those who are involuntarily living apart. The key challenges are 1) continuous spatial mapping between two heterogeneous floor plans and 2) navigating the robotic avatar to reflect the other's presence in real time under the limited maneuverability of the robot. We devise a notion of functionally equivalent location and orientation to translate a person's presence into another in a heterogeneous floor plan. We also develop predictive path warping to seamlessly synchronize the presence of the other. We conducted extensive experiments and deployment studies with real participants.