TY - JOUR
T1 - Telelife
T2 - The Future of Remote Living
AU - Orlosky, Jason
AU - Sra, Misha
AU - Bektaş, Kenan
AU - Peng, Huaishu
AU - Kim, Jeeeun
AU - Kos’myna, Nataliya
AU - Höllerer, Tobias
AU - Steed, Anthony
AU - Kiyokawa, Kiyoshi
AU - Akşit, Kaan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2021 Orlosky, Sra, Bektaş, Peng, Kim, Kos’myna, Höllerer, Steed, Kiyokawa and Akşit.
PY - 2021/11/29
Y1 - 2021/11/29
N2 - In recent years, everyday activities such as work and socialization have steadily shifted to more remote and virtual settings. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the switch from physical to virtual has been accelerated, which has substantially affected almost all aspects of our lives, including business, education, commerce, healthcare, and personal life. This rapid and large-scale switch from in-person to remote interactions has exacerbated the fact that our current technologies lack functionality and are limited in their ability to recreate interpersonal interactions. To help address these limitations in the future, we introduce “Telelife,” a vision for the near and far future that depicts the potential means to improve remote living and better align it with how we interact, live and work in the physical world. Telelife encompasses novel synergies of technologies and concepts such as digital twins, virtual/physical rapid prototyping, and attention and context-aware user interfaces with innovative hardware that can support ultrarealistic graphics and haptic feedback, user state detection, and more. These ideas will guide the transformation of our daily lives and routines soon, targeting the year 2035. In addition, we identify opportunities across high-impact applications in domains related to this vision of Telelife. Along with a recent survey of relevant fields such as human-computer interaction, pervasive computing, and virtual reality, we provide a meta-synthesis in this paper that will guide future research on remote living.
AB - In recent years, everyday activities such as work and socialization have steadily shifted to more remote and virtual settings. With the COVID-19 pandemic, the switch from physical to virtual has been accelerated, which has substantially affected almost all aspects of our lives, including business, education, commerce, healthcare, and personal life. This rapid and large-scale switch from in-person to remote interactions has exacerbated the fact that our current technologies lack functionality and are limited in their ability to recreate interpersonal interactions. To help address these limitations in the future, we introduce “Telelife,” a vision for the near and far future that depicts the potential means to improve remote living and better align it with how we interact, live and work in the physical world. Telelife encompasses novel synergies of technologies and concepts such as digital twins, virtual/physical rapid prototyping, and attention and context-aware user interfaces with innovative hardware that can support ultrarealistic graphics and haptic feedback, user state detection, and more. These ideas will guide the transformation of our daily lives and routines soon, targeting the year 2035. In addition, we identify opportunities across high-impact applications in domains related to this vision of Telelife. Along with a recent survey of relevant fields such as human-computer interaction, pervasive computing, and virtual reality, we provide a meta-synthesis in this paper that will guide future research on remote living.
KW - augmented reality
KW - human computer interaction
KW - telelife
KW - telepresence
KW - virtual reality
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U2 - 10.3389/frvir.2021.763340
DO - 10.3389/frvir.2021.763340
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85129694253
SN - 2673-4192
VL - 2
JO - Frontiers in Virtual Reality
JF - Frontiers in Virtual Reality
M1 - 763340
ER -