Document-centric mixed reality for connecting remote workgroups

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This research will mix the physical and digital worlds to connect group workspaces across distances. Building on prior work that used a virtual world to connect remote collaborators to a group in a physical workspace, this research program will consider how an abstract 3-D document space can facilitate group-to-group collaboration involving multiple work surfaces in different physical rooms. For example, digital tabletops in two physical workspaces can be linked in order to share, sort and edit documents, and whiteboards in each room can be linked to promote brainstorming, while the 3-D document space tracks the movement of documents between the linked tabletop and the linked whiteboard, and onto portable devices. Research will determine whether the 3-D document space mitigates the effects of layout differences between connected physical spaces, and provides a "room-agnostic" but spatially-linked way to prepare for collaborative work, record its flow and outcomes.