Body Image Projection in Telepresence Environment

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25540090
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Human interface and interaction
• Research Institution: Nagoya City University
• Principal Investigator: KODAKA Kenri 名古屋市立大学, 芸術工学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (40460050)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 身体イメージ / 身体変形感

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To build a strong reality for variety kinds of events happening in PC's desktop environment, it is important to give a feeling as if an user's body-part is literally present in actual display. This study focuses on a well-known body illusion and designed a novel desktop system using rear-touch interface with visuomotor-haptic correlations. In addition, we found an important guideline concerning how to design the shape of pointer in such a system.

Free Research Field

ヒューマン・コンピュータ・インタフェース　認知科学