TY - CONF TI - Fusion: Full Body Surrogacy for Collaborative Communication AU - Saraiji, MHD Yamen AU - Sasaki, Tomoya AU - Matsumura, Reo AU - Minamizawa, Kouta AU - Inami, Masahiko T3 - SIGGRAPH '18 AB - Effective communication is a key factor in social and professional contexts which involve sharing the skills and actions of more than one person. This research proposes a novel system to enable full body sharing over a remotely operated wearable system, allowing one person to dive into someone's else body. "Fusion" enables body surrogacy by sharing the same point of view of two-person: a surrogate and an operator, and it extends the limbs mobility and actions of the operator using two robotic arms mounted on the surrogate body. These arms can be used independently of the surrogate arms for collaborative scenarios or can be linked to surrogate's arms to be used in remote assisting and supporting scenarios. Using Fusion, we realize three levels of bodily driven communication: Direct, Enforced, and Induced. We demonstrate through this system the possibilities of truly embodying and transferring our body actions from one person to another, realizing true body communication. C1 - New York, NY, USA C3 - ACM SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies DA - 2018/// PY - 2018 DO - 10.1145/3214907.3214912 DP - ACM Digital Library SP - 7:1 EP - 7:2 PB - ACM SN - 978-1-4503-5810-1 ST - Fusion UR - http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3214907.3214912 Y2 - 2018/12/25/07:27:51 KW - body scheme alternation KW - collaborative systems KW - surrogacy ER -