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How to Communicate in a More Efficient Way Over Long Distances Instead of Travelling

Erik Dahlquist
Malardalen University, Sweden

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Published in: The 48th Scandinavian Conference on Simulation and Modeling (SIMS 2007); 30-31 October; 2007; Göteborg (Särö)

Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 27:2, p. 8-13

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Published: 2007-12-21

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ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)

Abstract

Today many long trips are made because of a need to meet physically. This is especially the case for business travels. If it would be possible to have a long distance contact where it felt like the counterpart was sitting next to you; the need for the actual travel would decrease significantly. This would save both time and energy. In this paper a discussion about technical possibilities to do this is discussed. A review is made over previous research related to the subject. Also ideas are presented on how this could be performed using a simulator model that drives a “mechanical; elastic head” from the information received on-line from a photo taken continuously by the counterpart.

Keywords

Long distance communication; remote; 3 D; animation; real time

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