KokaCamera

As instant messengers become popular, presence information also becomes useful information for casual interaction among a group. We propose a new method to visualize presence information using live camera images. Our new method uses live camera images as a basis for representing virtual shared space for a small community. Presence information -- activities of users -- is visualized as 'smokes' and effect lines, and superimposed at the seat of each member in the room, which makes easy to understand the mapping between presence information and the corresponding members.

This system is a kind of an augmented reality (AR) system. As opposed to the usual AR system that virtual objects in the real images, KokaCam uses cartoon or MANGA techniques to depict presence information naturally on a live camera image.

Each effect line and image depicts the following information:
Fire: Frequency of mouse events
Flash: Frequency of keyboard events
Smoke: Frequency of events in the past(no events in the present)
Centralized lines: Only one person is active
Balloon: Message of the user

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• KokaCamera
• kokacam
• iplab
• ubiquitous