Remote Handshaking (Nakanishi et al 2014)

This Remote Handshaking project was to study telepresence in live video conversation. A robotic arm allows one to shake hand with the remote presenter. On the presenter's side, the handshaking motion is activated by a sensor attached on presenter's finger. To facilitate the illusion of holding a real person's hand, the remote user's arm is hidden from the camera.

Reference: Hideyuki Nakanishi, Kazuaki Tanaka, Yuya Wada. 2014. Remote Handshaking: Touch Enhances Video-Mediated Social Telepresence. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2143-2152 

OperaBooth (Gelineck 2014)

"The project explores mediated intimacy between remote strangers through music. Two boxes are placed at two remote locations. In each box there is a hole for the head of the user. When "inside" the box the remote users look directly in the eyes of each other. A face tracking algorithm by Kyle McDonald detects the users mouth opening and triggers opera singing. This way the remote strangers can explore intimacy through an opera duet."


Reference: Steven Gelineck. 2014. OperaBooth - an Installation for Intimate Remote Communication through Music. In Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound (AM'14).
http://media.aau.dk/~stg/operaBooth.html