Project Number
- 304
Title
- RobotPHONE: RUI For Interpersonal Communication
Description
- Robotic shape-sharing system for tangible communication during interpersonal tele-exchanges.
Contact
- Dairoku Sekiguchi
Affiliation
- The University of Tokyo
Address
- Department of Information Physics and Computing
- Graduate School of Information
- 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
- Tokyo 113-0033 Japan
- +81.3.5841.6917
- +81.3.5841.8601 fax
- Graduate School of Information
- info@robotphone.org
WWW
Year
- 2001
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2001 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "RobotPHONE is a [robotic user interface] RUI system for interpersonal exchange that uses robots as shape-sharing agents for physical communication."
- "The shape and motion of remote shape-sharing devices are always synchronized by a symmetric bilateral control method. Robot movements, such as modification of posture or the input of motion, are reflected to the remote end in real time. RobotPHONE users can communicate and interact with each other by exchanging the shape and motion of the robot."
- Two prototypes were created - one, a snake-like robot for a shape-sharing device, and the other, a teddy bear used as a physical avatar, complete with an integrated voice-communication system. Any movements or gestures at one end are immediately mimicked at the other end.
Sight
- shape-sharing robot (teddy bear)
Sound
- voice-communication system
Touch
- share-sharing robot (teddy bear)
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 311 - communication
Remarks
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