[4eyes] Fwd: [grads] PhD Proposal - Steffen Gauglitz - 12/19/12 - 9AM - Phelps 1401

[Steffen Gauglitz]

If anybody is interested in attending my proposal tomorrow (announcement 
below) remotely, feel free to join via GoToMeeting:

https://www4.gotomeeting.com/join/354973583
(i.e., Meeting ID 354-973-583)

-Steffen

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Subject: [grads] PhD Proposal - Steffen Gauglitz - 12/19/12 - 9AM - 
Phelps 1401
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:12:08 -0800
From: Katie Ellis <kellis at cs.ucsb.edu>
To: grads at cs.ucsb.edu, faculty at cs.ucsb.edu

PhD Proposal
Steffen Gauglitz
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
9:00 AM
Phelps 1401

Committee: Tobias Höllerer (Co-Chair), Matthew Turk (Co-Chair), Pradeep
Sen, Susan Fussell, Gerhard Reitmayr

Title: Interactive Remote Collaboration Using Augmented Reality

Abstract:

With the widespread deployment of fast data connections and availability
of a variety of sensors for different modalities, the potential of
remote collaboration has greatly increased. While the now ubiquitous
video conferencing applications take advantage of some of these
capabilities, the use of video between remote and local users is limited
largely to passively watching disjoint video feeds, leaving much to be
desired regarding direct interaction with the remote environment. Thus,
videoconference-like applications hit severe limitations when the matter
at hand involves real-world objects or environments.

In this proposal, we will describe a framework for unobtrusive mobile
video-mediated communication that integrates the physical environment.
We suggest that mobile Augmented Reality (AR) is a natural and
user-friendly paradigm to communicate spatial information about the
physical environment. Integration of computer vision and AR facilitates
more immersive and more direct interaction with the remote environment
than what is possible with today's tools. Our ongoing research entails
contributions in visual tracking and modeling of the environment, user
interfaces and enabling technologies for world-stabilized remote
pointing and gesturing, proof-of-concept implementations as well as user
studies of various aspects of remote interaction.

Everyone Welcome!

-- 
Katie Ellis
Graduate Advisor
Department of Computer Science
University of California at Santa Barbara
(805) 893-4322
kellis at cs.ucsb.edu

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