Meta Table beta
https://youtu.be/SYSh5wLB_6o
Abstract:
Meta Table β is a table where people in remote locations share an atmosphere with each other in an avatar robot cafe.
Avatar robot cafe is a cafe where people with disabilities who have difficulty going out can engage in telework using avatar robots. We started a limited time experimental cafe with 10 people with disabilities in 2018, and opened a permanent exhibition in 2021. Today, more than 50 people with disabilities from around the world work at the avatar robot cafe via the Internet. Operating an avatar robot and serving customers in a café requires a high level of skill. Not only do they have to operate the robot, but they also have to talk to customers and sometimes even pick up on cues from the conversation and atmosphere. As more and more people with disabilities work as pilots, we have found that we need to support their communication skills as well as their ability to operate the Avatar robots. We developed the Meta Table β beta as a cybernetic avatar technology that combines robotics, AR, VR, and AI to augment human capabilities.
Meta Table β is a new application for avatar robot cafes. The pilot operating the avatar robot shares the atmosphere with the customers of the café by (1) recognizing the atmosphere with the support of AI and (2) using CG avatars combined with a transparent display and projection mapping.
The Meta Table β allows those who have difficulty going out to share the atmosphere with customers remotely, expanding opportunities for social participation.
Member:
Member: Yusei SAKAI, You SHIRAI , Masaki ISHIWATA (Kanagawa Institute of Technology) Kazuaki TAKEUCHI, Hiroaki KATO, Kentaro YOSHIFUJI (Ory Lab Inc.), and Yoichi YAMAZAKI (Kanagawa Institute of Technology)
Movie：
Meta Table β
https://youtu.be/eKU5T1BtSSs
Avatar robot cafe DAWN ver.β(ENG.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj1z6HEAkYY
Related research：
Takashi Kanetsuna, Kazuaki Takeuchi, Hiroaki Kato, Taichi Sono, Hirotaka Osawa, Kentaro Yoshifuji, and Yoichi Yamazaki. 2022. Interaction in Remote Peddling Using Avatar Robot by People with Disabilities. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 281–283. https://doi.org/10.1145/3527188.3563915 Yoichi Yamazaki, Tsukuto Yamada, Hiroki Nomura, Nobuaki Hosoda, Ryoma Kawamura, Kazuaki Takeuchi, Hiroaki Kato, Ryuma Niiyama, and Kentaro Yoshifuji, "Meta Avatar Robot Cafe: Linking Physical and Virtual Cybernetic Avatars to Provide Physical Augmentation for People with Disabilities," ACM SIGGRAPH 2022 Emerging Technologies (SIGGRAPH '22), Association for Computing Machinery, Article 6, 1–2, Aug. 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532721.3546117 "Meta Avatar Robot Cafe Laval Virtual", Laval Virtual Awards 2022 finalists in the service category, 2022.
Kazuaki Takeuchi, Yoichi Yamazaki and Kentaro Yoshifuji, "Avatar Work: Telework for Disabled People Unable to Go Outside by Using Avatar Robots "OriHime-D" and Its Verification". In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI ’20), March 23 26, 2020, Cambridge, UK . ACM, New York, NY, USA 8 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3380737 Kazuaki Takeuchi, Yoichi Yamazaki, Takuya Hashimoto, and Masao Isshiki, "Personal Characteristics Expression by Changing Forms of the Eyelid for Deformed Face Robot," Proc. of IEEE ICCE2018, PS-3.14, Jan.2018
Kazuaki Takeuchi, Yoichi Yamazaki, Takuya Hashimoto, and Masao Isshiki, "Personal Characteristics Expression Using Nose and Mouth Movement for Face Deformed Robot," Proc. of IEEE GCCE2017, pp.663-664, Oct. 2017.
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