University of Canterbury. Human Interface Technology Laboratory.
Abstract
The Wearable Active Camera/Laser (WACL) allows the
remote collaborators not only to set their viewpoints into the
wearer’s workplace independent of the wearer’s motion but
also to point to real objects directly with the laser spot. In
this paper, we report an user test to examine the advantages
and limitations of the WACL interface in remote collaboration
by comparing a head-mounted display and a headmounted
camera-based headset interface. Results show that
the WACL gives better impressions on comfortability when
wearing, eye-friendliness, and fatigue in spite of no significant
difference in task completion time. We first review related
works and user studies with wearable collaborative
systems, and then describe the details on the user test