3D3CWorlds: Use case - Presence (Sigurd Van Broeck, Alcatel-Lucent et. al.)

Part 6 of 11 of the 3D3CWorlds meeting, Israel March 2011
see www.3d3cworlds.com

Presence has been studied for employees as well as family members or friends.
Employees working together on a single project from different locations are often missing the social interactions that their colleagues have when in the same location. PresenceScape brings these employees together again in a single virtual location where they can feel together, have the capability to start informal communications at any time about any subject and provide more detailed presence information about the task they are doing.
A group of friends or family members that live apart and want to spend pastime together from the comfort of their homes can do this in a 3D virtual location on the Internet. Instead of being represented by avatars, the Alcatel-Lucent solution represents friends and family members by their streaming stereo image, allowing them to express facial emotions and gestures without the need to handle keyboard or mouse.
Both solutions have been guided by extensive formative user research.


Sigurd Van Broeck & Senka Zubic
Bell labs, Alcatel-Lucent

Koen Willaert
IBBT SMIT-Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Virtual Worlds
• 3D3CWorld
• ITEA2
• Eureka
• mixed realities
• augmented realities