Communication
Wearable Device
Telepresence
Human-centered design
T-Leap
February 2022 - March 2023
Research Internship at Information Somatics Lab, The University of Tokyo
Prof. Daisuke Uriu
Prof. Masahiko Inami
Keywords
Research Summary
Telepresence, technologies which allow remote persons to feel as if they were present, is a growing field, especially during the pandemic. There have been many research projects in this field; however, many require a complicated robot company or provide a first-person view to remote users. We are developing T-Leap, a wearable technology that can bring the remote person the experience of walking next to the user. It has a 360-degree camera on the user's shoulder and shares the video with remote persons. We are investigating how this technology can facilitate communication between users in various settings, including remote shopping and museum guides. Also, extending this system, we are designing a technology that allows users to share the video of surrounding environments simultaneously.
My role
I contributed to the project by analyzing the recording of the case study of a remote shopping experience using an affinity diagram. We plan to submit a paper to DIS, where I will contribute as a co-author. I am currently doing prototyping and Wizard of Oz experiments to explore the design of a system where multiple users can broadcast their surrounding environments simultaneously. While it is a novel and complex interaction to see both our own environment and others' environment simultaneously, I am looking for insight into how to maintain ease of use and bring fun and meaning into user interactions as a core member.
Publication
- Work in progress