Mini-Me: An Adaptive Avatar for Mixed Reality Remote Collaboration

By Thammathip Piumsomboon, Gun A. Lee, J. Hart, Barrett Ens, R. Lindeman, B. Thomas, Mark Billinghurst. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018

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We present Mini-Me, an adaptive avatar for enhancing Mixed Reality (MR) remote collaboration between a local Augmented Reality (AR) user and a remote Virtual Reality (VR) user. The Mini-Me avatar represents the VR user's gaze direction and body gestures while it transforms in size and orientation to stay within the AR user's field of view. A user study was conducted to evaluate Mini-Me in two collaborative scenarios: an asymmetric remote expert in VR assisting a local worker in AR, and a symmetric collaboration in urban planning. We found that the presence of the Mini-Me significantly improved Social Presence and the overall experience of MR collaboration.

Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction

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