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，以连接跨距离的群体。基于先前使用虚拟世界将远程协作者连接到物理工作空间中的一组的工作，该研究计划将考虑抽象的3D文档空间如何促进涉及不同物理房间中的多个工作表面的组对组协作。例如，两个物理房间中的数字桌面可以链接以共享、分类和编辑文档，每个房间中的白板可以链接以促进头脑风暴，而3D文档空间跟踪链接的桌面和链接的白板之间的文档移动，以及移动到便携式设备上。研究将确定3D文档空间是否减轻了连接的物理空间之间的布局差异的影响，并提供了一种“房间不可知”但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器（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取代它来实现共存的感觉（与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环境之间的临时连接，并允许远程团队在环境意识很重要时（例如，当总部的股票经纪人与坐在俯瞰市场的房间里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使用至关重要。在使物理布局的协作的远程协作的研究重点，本研究计划显着扩展以前的工作在数字介导的远程协作，通过移动查询生态有效的工作环境。