FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing
We introduce FocalSpace, a video conferencing system that dynamically recognizes relevant activities and objects through depth sensing and hybrid tracking of multimodal cues, such as voice, gesture, and proximity to surfaces. FocalSpace uses this information to enhance users' focus by diminishi...
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| author | Yao, Lining DeVincenzi, Anthony Pereira, Anna Ishii, Hiroshi |
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| description | We introduce FocalSpace, a video conferencing system that dynamically recognizes relevant activities and objects through depth sensing and hybrid tracking of multimodal cues, such as voice, gesture, and proximity to surfaces. FocalSpace uses this information to enhance users' focus by diminishing the background through synthetic blur effects. We present scenarios that support the suppression of visual distraction, provide contextual augmentation, and enable privacy in dynamic mobile environments. Our user evaluation indicates increased memory accuracy and user preference for FocalSpace techniques compared to traditional video conferencing. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/922752022-09-28T00:18:20Z FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing Yao, Lining DeVincenzi, Anthony Pereira, Anna Ishii, Hiroshi Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Yao, Lining DeVincenzi, Anthony Pereira, Anna Ishii, Hiroshi We introduce FocalSpace, a video conferencing system that dynamically recognizes relevant activities and objects through depth sensing and hybrid tracking of multimodal cues, such as voice, gesture, and proximity to surfaces. FocalSpace uses this information to enhance users' focus by diminishing the background through synthetic blur effects. We present scenarios that support the suppression of visual distraction, provide contextual augmentation, and enable privacy in dynamic mobile environments. Our user evaluation indicates increased memory accuracy and user preference for FocalSpace techniques compared to traditional video conferencing. 2014-12-11T14:49:41Z 2014-12-11T14:49:41Z 2013-07 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/ConferencePaper 9781450321419 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92275 Lining Yao, Anthony DeVincenzi, Anna Pereira, and Hiroshi Ishii. 2013. FocalSpace: multimodal activity tracking, synthetic blur and adaptive presentation for video conferencing. In Proceedings of the 1st symposium on Spatial user interaction (SUI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 73-76. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2791-434X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-8908 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2491367.2491377 Proceedings of the 1st symposium on Spatial user interaction (SUI '13) Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Yao, Lining DeVincenzi, Anthony Pereira, Anna Ishii, Hiroshi FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing |
| title | FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing |
| title_full | FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing |
| title_fullStr | FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing |
| title_full_unstemmed | FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing |
| title_short | FocalSpace: Multimodal Activity Tracking, Synthetic Blur and Adapative Presentation for Video Conferencing |
| title_sort | focalspace multimodal activity tracking synthetic blur and adapative presentation for video conferencing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/92275 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2791-434X https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4918-8908 |
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