For this topic I’m going to explore about Telepresence and Telerobotics. First of all, what is Telepresence? Telepresence refers to a set of technologies which allow a person to feel as if they were present, to give the appearance of being present. It is giving you a visual effect in the technology tool, it must be generate by technology tool such as computer or mobile device. Telepresence requires that the users’ senses be provided with such stimuli as to give the feeling of being in that other location. Additionally, users may be given the ability such as the user’s position, face expression, gesture, movements, actions, voice and so-on to improve the thing you trying to express to affect the remote location.
Telepresence videoconferencing is a two-way, high definition communication and collaboration tool that provides an experience to users like having a conversation in the same room. Telepresence videoconferencing technically apply in business collaboration, it allows users to connect two or more locations and offers employees, customers, and business partners a level of flexibility and quality communication that significantly increases business productivity while streamlining work processes. Not only that, if you want to have a long distance meeting with customers or business partners, you may use telepresence videoconferencing. The telepresence technology is a combination of four elements which is high-quality audio and video, simplicity, high-reliability, and environmental excellence.
Telepresence is using technology to get a sense of shared presence or space among geographically separated members of a group. There are two types of spaces which is person space and task space. Person task is sence of co-presence which is facial expression and body language that you could make in telepresence videoconferencing. On the other hand, Task space is co-presence in domain of task being undertaken. The importance of person space are Inability to establish eye contact, use portrait rather than landscape orientation, when using multiple sites use video surrogates and also scale can be important. About task space, usually are using the same video channel to share the copy of documents.
Telerobotics is the area of robotics that is concerned with the control of robots from a distance. It is qutie similar in meaning to the phrase “remote control” but is usually encountered in research, academic and technical environments. Telerobotic also called teleoperation, teleoperation is standard term in use both in research and technical communities and is by the distance they had set in earlier, but most standard term for referring to operation at a distance. In this century, most of medical centre had started to use telerobotics in medical application. However, any decision before making have to done by human first while the robot is responsible for their mechanical implementation. Using teleoperation, most of the surgeries can be performed by using minimally invasive surgical techniques, in which there is only small incision site for instrument entry. As a result, this causes less pain to the patients and there will be less tissue trauma, thus reducing hospitalization time and enhancing recovery. For example, in many operations such as eye surgery, small precise movements are needed. As a result, the telerobotics can minimize the risk of operation, the operation hand movements on the controls are scaled down so that very fine instrument movements can be performed.
Bibliography
- Telepresence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2015. Telepresence – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence. [Accessed 08 July 2015].
- Telerobotics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2015. Telerobotics – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telerobotics. [Accessed 08 July 2015].
- What is teleoperation (telerobotics)? – Definition from WhatIs.com. 2015.What is teleoperation (telerobotics)? – Definition from WhatIs.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/teleoperation-telerobotics. [Accessed 08 July 2015]
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