Movable projection avatar system “Remy” for helping remote collaboration handling real objects

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a movable projection avatar system named “Remy”. Remy aims to support communication that share other party's actual environment from a remote environment. There are three issues in a lot of existing studies in remote communication system. First, there are few systems that consider sharing other party's actual environment. Second, even in the systems sharing other party's actual environment, users suffer from distraction of some devices. Third, nonverbal communication is not considered in a lot of existing systems. Remy solves these three issues by projecting two dimension avatar on actual environment. Conducting some Remy's evaluations from local user's perspective, the results showed that Remy can solve three issues and enhance quality of communication.