Browsing by Author "Fukuoka, Masaaki"

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    Evaluating Techniques to Share Hand Gestures for Remote Collaboration using Top-Down Projection in a Virtual Environment
    (The Eurographics Association, 2022) Teo, Theophilus; Sakurada, Kuniharu; Fukuoka, Masaaki; Sugimoto, Maki; Hideaki Uchiyama; Jean-Marie Normand
    Sharing hand gestures in a remote collaboration offers natural and expressive communication between collaborators. Proposed techniques allow sharing dependent (attached to something) or independent (no attachment) hand gestures in an immersive remote collaboration. However, there are research gaps for sharing hand gestures using different techniques and how it impacts user behaviour and performance. In this paper, we propose an evaluation study to compare sharing dependent and independent hand gestures. We developed a prototype, supporting three techniques of sharing hand gestures: Attached to Local, Attached to Object, and Independent Hands. Also, we use top-down projection, an easy-to-setup method to share a local user's environment with a remote user. We compared the three techniques and found that independent hands help a remote user guide a local user in an object interaction task quicker than hands attached to the local user. It also gives clearer instruction than dependent hands despite limited depth perception caused by top-down projection. A similar trend is also found in remote users' preferences.
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    Investigating Perception of Multiple Virtual Hands using Startle Response
    (The Eurographics Association, 2022) Mashiyama, Yuki; Fukuoka, Masaaki; Teo, Theophilus; Kondo, Ryota; Sugimoto, Maki; Theophilus Teo; Ryota Kondo
    Studies have been conducted to examine the human body perception of a whole body when having multiple bodies. In this paper, we investigate how does the sense of body ownership and the sense of agency change when a user synchronously moves multiple body parts in a virtual environment. Participants in a demonstration will perform a reaching task for 150 seconds by physically moving their right hands while visualised as one or nine hands in a virtual reality environment. At the end of the reaching task, a threat stimulus is triggered and participants' electromyography are measured as an objective index of the sense of body ownership. Finally, a short survey will be conducted to query the strength of the subjective sense of body ownership and agency.
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    The Sense of Agency, Sense of Body Ownership with a Semi-autonomous Telexistence Robot under Shared / Unshared Intention Conditions
    (The Eurographics Association, 2022) Takechi, Tohru; Nakamura, Fumihiko; Fukuoka, Masaaki; Ienaga, Naoto; Sugimoto, Maki; Theophilus Teo; Ryota Kondo
    With the increasing popularity of robots such as teleoperated semi-autonomous robots, sense of agency (SoA) and sense of body ownership (SoBO) with semi-autonomous robots is becoming increasingly important. This study investigates the changes in the SoA and SoBO when the user control weight of the robot is altered in human-robot collaboration. Through an experiment, we compared the SoA and SoBO in a pick-and-place task using a robotic arm under the conditions in which the autonomous robotic arm shared and unshared the target with the participant. The results showed that the SoA and the SoBO increased with the increase of user control weight. However, the user control weight of 75% achieved a slightly higher SoA than that of 100%.