Gaze and Gestures in Telepresence: multimodality, embodiment, and roles of collaboration

Mauro Cherubini, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Nuria Oliver, Christian Ferran

(Submitted on 18 Jan 2010)

This paper proposes a controlled experiment to further investigate the usefulness of gaze awareness and gesture recognition in the support of collaborative work at a distance. We propose to redesign experiments conducted several years ago with more recent technology that would: a) enable to better study of the integration of communication modalities, b) allow users to freely move while collaborating at a distance and c) avoid asymmetries of communication between collaborators.

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Position paper, International Workshop New Frontiers in Telepresence 2010, part of CSCW2010, Savannah, GA, USA, 7th of February, 2010. [conf. URL]