Project Number
- 149
Title
- Space Browser: A Tool for Ubiquitous Tele-Embodiment
Description
- Mobile telepresence platforms using helium blimps for two-way communication.
Contact
- Eric Paulos, John Canny
Affiliation
- University of California, Berkeley
Address
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- 387 Soda Hall
- Berkeley, California 94720
- +1.510.642.8149
- +1.510.642.5775 fax
- 387 Soda Hall
- paulos@cs.berkeley.edu, jfc@cs.berkeley.edu
WWW
- http://vive.cs.berkeley.edu/blimp
Year
- 1996
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 96 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "Space Browsers" address some of the personal mobility and autonomy issues that are lacking in video tele-conferencing.
- Using helium blimps with video, two-way communication, and remote controls with a small, one pound package, these "tele-mobots" immerse the user in a remote world by providing real-time remote environmental information, continuity of motion, and user control of that motion through a simple Java applet interface.
- "Space Browsers" offer a new means of remote human interaction and potentials for ubiquitous telepresence.
Sight
- mobile helium camera/communication platforms (blimps)
Sound
- microphone, speaker
Touch
- mobile helium blimps
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 204 - telepresence
Secondary
- 311 - communication
Remarks
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