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This paper gives an overview of the ongoing project STellaR – A stationary telepresence counselling system for collaborative work on paper documents. The system consists of dedicated rooms for video counselling, which clients can use to connect to a remotely located counselor without requiring any knowledge about computers or the internet. STellaR rooms are equipped with a large monitor, high quality microphone, camera, and sound system, which represent the counselor in life size.
The system enables a collaborative work on paper documents, that are still widely used in e.g., debt counselling. These documents are scanned and transmitted to the counselor. Through the use of projectors, the counselor can point, mark and annotate the paper documents. Furthermore, the digitized paper documents are archived in a block chain. This enables to track their states of editing over several counselling sessions.
We describe the developments on the system that have already taken place, as well as planned, future work.
This research and development project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) within the funding program “Forschung an Fachhochschulen” (13FH034SX8). The project is in cooperation with Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft der Freien Wohlfahrtspflege (BAGFW) e.V., Deutscher Caritasverband e.V. and AWO Unterbezirk Hagen-Märkischer Kreis.
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https://jitsi.org/, last accessed 11.06.2021.
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https://opensource.google/projects/tesseract, last accessed 11.06.2021.
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Other aspects include for example: use of digital media, questions about the room in general (clients only), technical difficulties during the session as well as socio-demographic data of participants.
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Laak, M., Schmitz, AK., Becking, D., Seelmeyer, U., Waag, P., Weinhardt, M. (2021). STellaR – A Stationary Telepresence Counselling System for Collaborative Work on Paper Documents. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M., Ntoa, S. (eds) HCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Posters. HCII 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1499. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90179-0_49
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