Persuading people in a remote destination to sing by beaming there
Pierre Bourdin, Josep Maria Tomàs Sanahuja, Carlota Crusafon Moya, Patrick Haggard, Mel Slater · 2013
We built a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) allowing one person, the 'visitor' to be digitally transported to a remote destination to interact with local people there. This included full body tracking, vibrotactile feedback and voice. This allowed interactions in the same CVE between multiple people situated in different physical remote locations. This system was used for an experiment to study whether the conveyance of touch has an impact on the willingness of participants embodied in the CVE to sing in public.