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Objectives
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2.
3.
Promote telepresence to people
Introduce the benefits of
telepresence , its application and
the future trend
Examine people’s understanding
on telepresence through the
questionnaires and analysis
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What is telepresence?
To feel everyone in present
in the meeting even
though they are attending
the meeting from different
parts of the world
To connect
geographically
separated people via
high-quality audio and
video streams
Telepresence
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How telepresence works?
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• At least two locations with
dedicated server hardware and software,
bandwidth to support the HD throughput
• Equipment that can deliver high-quality audio
and HD video
• People appear life-size with hands and torso
visible.
They can discern body language and facial
expressions
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Current Applications
Names
Explain
Connecting communities
To establish a sense of shared
presence or shared space
among geographically
separated members of a
group.
Where humans are exposed
to hazardous situations are
suitable to use telepresence
for avoiding those risk.
Students can stay at home to
have a class.
Hazardous environments
Education
Pipeline inspection
It is used especially in small
diameter pipes which can
not be viewed for
examination.
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Future trend
Application Segment
What is it ?
IllumiShare
A desk-lamp shaped projection device that
enables local and remote workers to view,
share and work with physical or digital
objects on any surface.
The Beaming Project
It is a telepresence concept that uses visual
reality and haptic interfaces to record a
remote user’s interactions in one locations
and mirror those inputs on a humankind
robot
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Survey Result
Education level of interviewers
Bachelor's
degree or higher
32%
Associate
Degree or Higher
Diploma
30%
Others
38%
High School
Graduate
32%
Others
6%
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Result analysis
More than a half of people know about
the information of Telepresence, one-third
of all visitors had the experience on using
Telepresence technology.
Almost 90% visitors know or willing to know
Telepresence technology. It shows that
this technology is becoming more
popular. It is a important force to
enhance its further development.
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Result analysis
In the advantage side, people seldom think Telepresence
can reduce the use of electricity, maybe there is a
misunderstand on the device are electricconsuming, probably that is not the truth.
But most likely people will agree that this telenology can
cut travel cost and enhance productivity.
Disadvantage side, although people agree that is
costly, we expect the technology will become more and
more popular, can the cost will reduce eventually.
Overall, people think that Telepresence technology has
more advantage against disadvantage.
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Conclusion
Although telepresence systems have certain
disadvantages
they are still becoming increasingly popular in
both business and academe, and
a number of schools have implemented such
systems over the past few years .
It is believed that new avenues of sharing will
emerge with the rapid improvement on
telepresence.
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