Active Interaction: Live Remote Interaction through Video Feeds
Jeffrey D. Naisbitt, Jalal F. Al-Muhtadi, Roy H. Campbell · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 2005
Abstract. Ubiquitous computing environments and the plethora of mobile devices that populate them have led to a global trend for remote collaboration and interaction. This trend demands seamless interfaces for remote interaction with these ubiquitous environments and their inhabitants. Existing applications for remote interactions are limited and typically require the user to mentally translate virtual avatars, tags, or names into real objects. Location information from accurate location sensing technologies, such as Ubisense, and other location sensing devices, facilitate enhanced interactions. Fusing the location information with live video feeds from multiple standard pan-tilt cameras, we provide a seamless, easily reconfigurable, real-time interface for remote interactions within distributed ubiquitous environments. Users interact with objects directly through the video feed itself. In effect, our framework dynamically discovers all resources and programmable objects in the vicinity and allows remote users to interact with the environment and all of its resources and objects as if they were physically present in the environment. 1