Study on Placement and Presentation of Multiple Avatars in MR-based Distributed Meeting

Accession number;07A0065911
Title;Study on Placement and Presentation of Multiple Avatars in MR-based Distributed Meeting
Author; NOGUCHI YASUHITO (Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, Univ. Tsukuba, JPN) INOUE TOMOO (Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, Univ. Tsukuba, JPN)
Journal Title;IPSJ Transactions on Database
Journal Code:Z0778A
ISSN:0387-5806
VOL.48;NO.1;PAGE.54-62(2007)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.7, TBL.3, REF.36
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;Although distributed meeting support is one of indispensable network services, presentation of meeting by other visual media than 2D video has not been studied enough. Mixed reality (MR) technology can be one of the method that conveys sense of reality in a meeting. However, optimal presentation of avatars by means of mixed realily technology is not well known. This paper describes an experiment that explored spatial arrangement of multiple avatars through video see-through head mounted display (HMD). As a result, it was shown that spatial arrangement of multiple avatars affects a meeting in the MR world. Also, it was shown that the size of an avatar on a HMD which people recognize as life-size was smaller than that on a 2D display. (author abst.)