Requirements and Design Considerations for a Fully Immersive Robotic Telepresence System

In an ideal robotic telepresence system the visitor would perceive and be perceived as being fully present at a remote location. This can happen if the visitor has a first person experience of the destination location including full sensory stimulation, and if the people at the remote location would be able to naturally perceive and interact with the visitor as a regular human being. In this paper, we report on the requirements and design considerations for a fully immersive robotic telepresence system that were gathered for an FP7 EU telepresence project aiming to address these issues. Based on these requirements we list a set of user tasks that such a system should support and discuss some possible design tradeoffs.