SBIR Phase I: Integrating the Physical Environment into Remote Collaboration

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力来自于正在开发的技术的潜力，这些技术将空间维度整合到基于视频的通信工具中，允许人们与远程参与者共享他们的物理空间，然后他们可以独立地探索和注释这些空间，为远程协作提供新的机会。这项创新的商业影响可能是巨大的。这种空间远程协作技术可以在广泛的应用中找到实际用途，例如远程维修、培训和指导、灾害/紧急情况、房地产以及许多其他应用。更有吸引力的远程协作工具可以为人们提供新的机会，让他们丰富地体验远程事件，并以基于音频和视频的通信无法实现的方式分享个人经验。这些远程协作能力可以大大改善欠发达和服务不足社区参与特定地点事件和活动的机会，包括远程医疗评估、远程学习以及在旅行费用过高的情况下参与。这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目努力建立在先前nsf资助的研究基础上，开发引人注目的、以用户为中心的技术，在用户周围的物理空间对交互很重要的环境中支持远程协作。研究计划侧重于两个具体方面，这两个方面在以前的工作中没有得到解决，但对该技术的商业化很重要：空间建模的初始化和动态场景的处理。该提案提出了可行的解决方案，并详细说明了为这两个问题探索单个解决方案和组合解决方案的计划，以便为用户提供一个需要最小额外努力或重点使用的系统。提出的研究结果包括这两个关键问题的解决方案路径和一个原型系统，该系统实现了远程基于空间的协作，而不会妨碍用户使用系统级细节，同时允许他们专注于手头的任务。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project results from the potential for the technologies being developed to incorporate the spatial dimension into video-based communication tools, allowing people to share their physical spaces with remote participants, who can then independently explore and annotate these spaces, providing new opportunities for remote collaboration. The commercial impact of this innovation is potentially substantial. Such spatial telecollaboration technologies could find practical use in a wide range of applications, such as remote repair, training and instruction, disaster/emergency situations, real estate, and many others. More compelling remote collaboration tools can open up new opportunities for people to richly experience remote events and to share personal experiences in a way that audio- and video-based communications cannot achieve. These telecollaboration capabilities can significantly improve opportunities for underdeveloped and underserved communities to participate in location-specific events and activities, including remote medical assessment, remote learning, and participation in situations where travel is prohibitively expensive.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project endeavors to build on prior NSF-funded research to develop compelling, user-centered technologies that support remote collaboration in contexts where the physical space around the user is important to the interaction. The research plan focuses on two specific aspects that have not been addressed in prior work but are important to commercialization of the technology: initialization of the spatial modeling and handling of dynamic scenes. The proposal suggests plausible solutions and details plans to explore individual solutions and combinations for both problems, in order to provide users with a system that requires minimal additional effort or focus to employ. The results of the proposed research include a solution path for both of these key issues and a prototype system that implements remote spatial-based collaboration without encumbering the users with system-level details, while allowing them to focus on the tasks at hand.