Document-centric mixed reality for connecting remote workgroups

以文档为中心的混合现实，用于连接远程工作组

• 批准号: 418612-2012
• 负责人: Reilly, Derek
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: Dalhousie University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=634703
• 关键词: Document; centric; mixed; reality; connecting

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. This approach to collaboration across distances does not reduce collaboration to a single display (as with most videoconferencing and desktop groupware), and does not constrain room layout or replace it with an artificial environment to achieve the perception of co-presence (as with most immersive solutions). It promotes ad hoc connectivity between heterogeneous workspaces such as a meeting room and a lab, and allows collaboration between remote teams when environmental awareness is important (e.g., when stock brokers in the head office share sales figures with colleagues who are in a room overlooking the market floor). In a society that increasingly integrates digital technology with the physical world, it is critical to understand how our experience of the built environment impacts technology use. In making the physical layout of collaborative workspaces a research focus, this research program notably extends previous work in digitally-mediated workspaces for remote collaboration, by moving inquiry toward ecologically valid work environments.

这项研究将混合物理和数字世界，以连接跨距离的组工作空间。在先前使用虚拟世界将远程合作者与物理工作区中的小组联系起来的先前工作的基础上，该研究计划将考虑抽象的3-D文档空间如何促进小组对小组的协作，涉及不同物理房间中的多个工作表面。例如，可以链接两个物理工作空间中的数字桌面以共享，分类和编辑文档，并且每个房间中的白板可以链接以促进头脑风暴，而3-D文档空间则跟踪链接的桌面和链接的白板之间的文档移动，并跟踪到可移植设备上。研究将确定3-D文档空间是否减轻了连接的物理空间之间布局差异的影响，并提供了一种“室内无关”但通过空间链接的方式来准备协作工作，记录其流程和结果。这种跨距离协作的方法不会将协作减少到单个显示（与大多数视频会议和桌面组件一样），并且不会限制房间布局或用人工环境替换它以实现共同点的感知（如大多数沉浸式解决方案）。它促进了异构工作空间（例如会议室和实验室）之间的临时连通性，并在环境意识很重要时允许远程团队之间的协作（例如，当总部的股票经纪人与在俯瞰市场场地的同事的总经理共享销售数字时）。在一个越来越多地将数字技术与物理世界融合在一起的社会中，了解我们对建筑环境的经验如何影响技术的使用至关重要。在使协作工作空间的物理布局成为研究重点时，该研究计划特别扩展了以数字介导的工作空间的远程协作工作，通过将查询转移到生态有效的工作环境中。