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How coherent environments support remote gestures

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Previous studies have demonstrated the importance of providing users with a coherent environment across distant sites. To date, it remains unclear how such an environment affects people's gestures and their comprehension. In this study, we investigate how a coherent environment across distant sites affects people's hand gestures when collaborating on physical tasks. We present video-mediated technology that provides distant users with a coherent environment in which they can freely gesture toward remote objects by the unmediated representations of hands. Using this system, we examine the values of a coherent environment by comparing remote collaboration on physical tasks in a fractured setting versus a coherent setting. The results indicate that a coherent environment facilitates gesturing toward remote objects and their use improves task performance. The results further suggest that a coherent environment improves the sense of co-presence across distant sites and enables quick recovery from misunderstandings.

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    AVI '08: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
    May 2008
    483 pages
    ISBN:9781605581415
    DOI:10.1145/1385569
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    1. coherent environment
    2. collaborative physical task
    3. computer-supported collaborative work
    4. remote gesture
    5. video-mediated communication

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