Traumatic injuries require timely intervention, but medical expertise is not always available
at the patient's location. Despite recent advances in telecommunications, surgeons still have …

Embodied virtual reality faithfully renders users' movements onto an avatar in a virtual 3D
environment, supporting nuanced nonverbal behavior alongside verbal communication. To …

Virtual agents are systems that add a social dimension to computing, often featuring not only
natural language input but also an embodiment or avatar. This allows them to take on a …

When pairs work together on a physical task, seeing a common workspace facilitates
communication and benefits performance. When mediating such activities, however, the …

TeleAdvisor is a novel solution designed to support remote assistance tasks in many real-
world scenarios. It consists of a video camera and a small projector mounted at the end of a …

Non-verbal communication plays a large role in online competitive multiplayer games, as
team members attempt to coordinate with each other without distraction to achieve victory …

Recent mobile technology has provided new opportunities for creating remote assistance
systems. However, mobile support systems present a particular challenge: both the camera …

We describe a framework and prototype implementation for unobtrusive mobile remote
collaboration on tasks that involve the physical environment. Our system uses the …

Remote gesture systems have been shown to provide a significant enhancement to
performance in collaborative physical tasks, an effect ascribed to the ability of remote …

Mixed-reality telepresence allows local and remote users feel as if they are present together
in the same space. In this paper we report on a mixed-reality volumetric telepresence system …