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Fabian Hennecke, Simon Völker, Maximilian Schenk, Hauke Schaper, Jan Borchers, Andreas Butz
Simplifying Remote Collaboration Through Spatial Mirroring
In Proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2013). Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6 2013. (bib)

Even though remote collaboration through telepresence is supported by a variety of devices and display environments, it still has some inherent problems. One of these problems is the definition of a unified spatial reference system for the shared workspace in combination with an immersive representation of the collaborator. To mitigate this problem we propose a technique we call spatial mirroring. It is based on a virtual collaboration environment using two curved displays and aims to eliminate possible communication errors due to left/right misunderstandings. We explain the working principle and ideas behind spatial mirroring, and present two consecutive user studies in which we were able to verify its benefits.