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TEROOS: A Wearable Avatar to Enhance Joint
Activities i438
Tadakazu Kashiwabara, Hirotaka Osawa, Keio University, Japan
Kazuhiko Shinozawa, ATR Intelligent Robotics and
Communication Laboratories, Japan
Michita Imai, Keio University, Japan
This exhibit demonstrates a wearable avatar named TEROOS,
which is mounted on a person’s shoulder. TEROOS allows the
users who wear it and control it to share a vision remotely.
Moreover, the avatar has an anthropomorphic face that enables
the user who controls it to communicate with people co-located
with the user who wears it. We have a field test by using TEROOS
and observed that the wearable avatar innovatively assisted the
users to communicate during their joint activities such as route
navigating and buying goods at a shop. The user controlling
TEROOS could give the user wearing it appropriate route
instructions on the basis of the situation around TEROOS. In
addition, both users could easily identify objects that they
discussed. Moreover, shop staff members communicated with the
user controlling TEROOS and behaved as they normally would
when the user asked questions about the goods.
Animating Paper Craft using Shape Memory Alloys i439
Jie Qi, Leah Buechley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
(See associated paper on page 41)
Augmenting the Scope of Interactions with
Implicit and Explicit Graphical Structures i440
Raphaël Hoarau, Stéphane Conversy, Université de Toulouse -
ENAC/IRIT, France
(See associated paper on page 72)
Joggobot: A Flying Robot as Jogging Companion i500
Eberhard Graether, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller, RMIT University,
Australia
Exertion activities, such as jogging, provide many health benefits,
but exercising on your own can be considered disengaging. We
present our system ‘Joggobot’, a flying robot accompanying
joggers. Our design process revealed preliminary insights into
how to design robots for exertion and how to address emerging
design challenges. We summarize these insights into the four
themes: ‘embodiment’, ‘control’, ‘personality’ and
‘communication’, which mark initial starting points towards
understanding how to design robots for exertion activities. We
hope our work guides and inspires designers when facilitating the
benefits of exertion through robots.
n STUDENT GAMES COMPETITION | BALLROOM D
Interactivity
The Games and Entertainment Special Community created this
competition to showcase student work in areas of game design
and development that connect strongly to the CHI community of
research and practice. Students submitted games as well as
extended abstracts clarifying innovative aspects of their work. The
jury selected three finalist games in each category—
Serious Games, and Innovative Interface—and the winner in each
category will be announced at the awards session on Tuesday
afternoon. CHI attendees can play the games at the Interactivity
session in the Commons (Exhibit Hall 4, Level 1) directly after the
awards session. Winners will also be announced at the closing
Plenary on Thursday.
Tuesday
14:30 - 15:50 Competition and Awards Session
The games are open to play in the Commons
(Exhibit Hall 4, Level 1) immediately the after session.
n STUDENT GAMES COMPETITION - SERIOUS GAMES
Hit It! - An Apparatus for Upscaling Mobile
HCI Studies i401
Niels Henze, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Power Defense: A Serious Game for Improving
Diabetes Numeracy i402
Bill Kapralos, Aaron DeChamplain, Ian McCabe, Matt Stephan,
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
Motion Chain: A Webcam Game for Crowdsourcing
Gesture Collection i403
Ian Spiro, New York University, USA
n STUDENT GAMES COMPETITION - INNOVATIVE INTERFACES
Herding Nerds on your Table: NerdHerder,
a Mobile Augmented Reality Game i400
Yan Xu, Sam Mendenhall, Vu Ha, Georgia Tech, USA
Paul Tillery, Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
Joshua Cohen, Berklee College of Music, USA
BombPlus - Use NFC and Orientation Sensor to
Enhance User Experience i404
Chao-Ju Huang, Chien-Pang Lin, Min-Lun Tsai, Fu-Chieh Hsu,
National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Combiform: Beyond Co-attentive Play,
a Combinable Social Gaming Platform i313
Edmond Yee, Josh Joiner, Tai An, Andrew Dang, University of
Southern California, USA
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