TeleExperience: communicating compelling experience

Abstract

We experience our environment using our natural senses: sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. These senses combined with the knowledge of the world allow us to experience and function in the world. Data are observed facts or measurements. Information is derived from data in a specific context. Experience is direct observation or participation in an event. The development of civilization is the story of the development of understanding of 'experience' and how to share it with fellow human beings of current and future generations. The desire to share experiences and desire to experience various events where one can not be present, will continue to be the motivating factor in the development of exciting technology in the future. A look at history shows how our society evolved to become an 'information society' and is on its way to becoming an 'experience society'.Compelling and engaging experiences require immersion in a rich set of multimedia data and information so that one can directly observe a subset of the data and information. TeleExperience is a natural major step in technology evolution. It will impact every aspect of our society including education, business, sexual behavior, and health care. TeleExperience will give rise to an experience society. In this presentation, we will examine the role of multimedia information systems, multimedia presentations, situated computing, perception systems, and personalization approaches to realize TeleExperience. Then we will discuss aspects of taking a promising and exciting technology from 'laboratory to popular practice' based on practical experience.