2004 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'04)
e-MulCS : Multi-Party Conference System with Virtual Space and the Intuitive Input Interface
Tokyo, Japan
January 26-January 30
ISBN: 0-7695-2068-5
Currently, multi-party video conference does not provide equivalent quality in comparison to face-to-face conference. One assumed reason is that participants cannot be aware of "who is focusing on whom". We introduce virtual space to a multi-party conference system, allocating avatars in a space. We also introduce intuitive input interface using motion processor in order to construct a multi-party conference system, which the user can use without being aware of it. A new displaying method is essential for this system, and we introduce a way by which a user can obtain the feedback of which user he/she is focusing on. We introduce e-MulCS as the system that ful.ls these proposals. By comparing this system with the video conference system, the results show that our system supports the intuitive multi-party communication better.
Citation:
Kensaku Honda, Kentaro Fukui, Hiroshi Shigeno, Kenichi Okada, "e-MulCS : Multi-Party Conference System with Virtual Space and the Intuitive Input Interface," saint, pp.56, 2004 Symposium on Applications and the Internet (SAINT'04), 2004