Natural Living Room Communication with "ComAdapter" : Adapting to the Differences in Room Structure

Abstract

Aiming at a rich and useful communication system in our future daily life at home, we propose a novel communication concept in which people can mutually share their intention and emotion through their spontaneous behavior. Since our new scheme "ComAdaptor" can adapt to and offset the differences in the structures of each room, we can create mutual real space sharing communication systems that allow users in remote locations to communicate as though they entered the other party's room in accordance with the room layout. In a simple experimental system, body motions were successfully adapted and transmitted between two structurally different rooms. The successful experiment confirmed the validity and high potential of the proposed concept.