T-Leap:An integrated one-to-many wearable telepresence system

T-Leap is an integrated one-to-many wearable telepresence system that makes use of a 360-degree camera. With this system, we carried out a field study with three scenarios to observe participants using T-Leap to connect remotely (with the Viewer staying indoors, and the Nodes exploring outdoors) in situations where there exist linguistic and geographical barriers.

This Figure shows the system concept. The Viewer is connected to multiple Nodes. The Viewer chooses one Node to connect.

Minori Manabe, Daisuke Uriu, Takeshi Funatsu, Atsushi Izumihara, Takeru Yazaki, I-Hsin Chen, Yi-Ya Liao, Kang-Yi Liu, Ju-Chun Ko, Zendai Kashino, Atsushi Hiyama, and Masahiko Inami. 2020. Exploring in the City with Your Personal Guide:Design and User Study of T-Leap, a Telepresence System. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 96–106.

Takeru Yazaki, Daisuke Uriu, Yuna Watanabe, Ryoko Takagi, Zendai Kashino, and Masahiko Inami. 2023. “Oh, could you also grab that?”: A case study on enabling elderly person to remotely explore a supermarket using a wearable telepresence system. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia (MUM ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 340–352.