Document-centric mixed reality for connecting remote workgroups

这项研究将混合物理世界和数字世界，以连接跨距离的团队工作空间。基于先前使用虚拟世界将远程合作者连接到物理工作空间中的小组的工作，本研究计划将考虑抽象的3-D文档空间如何促进涉及不同物理房间的多个工作表面的小组对小组协作。例如，两个物理工作区中的数字桌面可以连接起来，以便共享、分类和编辑文档，每个房间中的白板可以连接起来，以促进头脑风暴，而3d文档空间可以跟踪文档在链接的桌面和链接的白板之间的移动，并转移到便携式设备上。研究将确定3d文档空间是否减轻了连接物理空间之间布局差异的影响，并提供了一种“房间无关”但空间关联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（就像大多数视频会议和桌面群件一样），也不会限制房间布局或用人工环境代替它来实现共同存在的感觉（就像大多数沉浸式解决方案一样）。它促进了会议室和实验室等异构工作空间之间的临时连接，并允许在环境意识很重要时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楼层的房间中的同事分享销售数据时）。在一个数字技术与物理世界日益融合的社会中，了解我们对建筑环境的体验如何影响技术的使用是至关重要的。在将协作工作空间的物理布局作为研究重点的过程中，该研究项目通过将调查转向生态有效的工作环境，显著扩展了以前在远程协作的数字媒介工作空间中的工作。

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.