Article Free Access Share on Beating the limitations of camera-monitor mediated telepresence with extra eyes Authors: Kimiya Yamaashi Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., 7-1-1 Omika-cho Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki-ken 319-12 Japan Hitachi Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd., 7-1-1 Omika-cho Hitachi-shi, Ibaraki-ken 319-12 JapanView Profile , Jeremy R. Cooperstock Telepresence Project, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5C 3G4, Canada Telepresence Project, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5C 3G4, CanadaView Profile , Tracy Narine Telepresence Project, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5C 3G4, Canada Telepresence Project, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5C 3G4, CanadaView Profile , William Buxton Telepresence Project, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5C 3G4, Canada and Alias/Wavefront, 110 Richmond Street East, Toronto ON M5C 1P1, Canada Telepresence Project, University of Toronto, 10 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5C 3G4, Canada and Alias/Wavefront, 110 Richmond Street East, Toronto ON M5C 1P1, CanadaView Profile Authors Info & Claims CHI '96: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 1996 Pages 50–57https://doi.org/10.1145/238386.238402Published:13 April 1996Publication History 26citation738DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations26Total Downloads738Last 12 Months38Last 6 weeks9 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteView all FormatsPDF

A basic tenet of "Ubiquitous computing" (Weiser, 1993 [13]) is that technology should be distributed in the environment (ubiquitous), yet invisible, or transparent.In practice, resolving the seeming paradox arising from the joint demands of ubiquity and transparency is less than simple.This paper documents a case study of attempting to do just that.We describe our experience in developing a working conference room which is equipped to support a broad class of meetings and media.After laying the groundwork and establishing the context in the Introduction, we describe the evolution of the room.Throughout, we attempt to document the rationale and motivation.While derived from a limited domain, we believe that the issues that arise are of general importance, and have strong implications on future research.