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Telepresence for space: The state of the conceptThe purpose here is to examine the concept of telepresence critically. To accomplish this goal, first, the assumptions that underlie telepresence and its applications are examined, and second, the issues raised by that examination are discussed. Also, these assumptions and issues are used as a means of shifting the focus in telepresence from development to user-based research. The most basic assumption of telepresence is that the information being provided to the human must be displayed in a natural fashion, i.e., the information should be displayed to the same human sensory modalities, and in the same fashion, as if the person where actually at the remote site. A further fundamental assumption for the functional use of telepresence is that a sense of being present in the work environment will produce superior performance. In other words, that sense of being there would allow the human operator of a distant machine to take greater advantage of his or her considerable perceptual, cognitive, and motor capabilities in the performance of a task than would more limited task-related feedback. Finally, a third fundamental assumption of functional telepresence is that the distant machine under the operator's control must substantially resemble a human in dexterity.
Document ID
19900016210
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Smith, Randy L. (Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Houston, TX, United States)
Gillan, Douglas J. (Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Houston, TX, United States)
Stuart, Mark A. (Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Co. Houston, TX, United States)
Date Acquired
September 6, 2013
Publication Date
March 1, 1990
Publication Information
Publication: NASA, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Third Annual Workshop on Space Operations Automation and Robotics (SOAR 1989)
Subject Category
Man/System Technology And Life Support
Accession Number
90N25526
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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