US-France Collaboration: Architectures and Interaction Paradigms for Multi-Surface Environments

该项目将在美国的加州大学伯克利分校与法国的南巴黎大学和INRIA之间建立合作，以探索多表面计算环境的架构和交互范例。多表面环境是结合了联合收割机墙壁显示器、手持计算设备和传统膝上型计算机的交互式显示器。这种环境可用于探索和操纵各种应用领域的“大数据”，包括产品设计、科学发现、决策和危机管理。多表面计算环境提出了多个挑战：什么是适当的交互模式，使团队在这样的空间最有效的工作？我们如何促进远程站点之间的成功协作？什么样的创作工具和抽象使研究人员能够快速探索多表面应用程序的空间？这种合作将有助于新的理论，技术和实证研究结果，以了解在多表面环境中的远程协作。该项目将建立在法国DIGISCOPE项目的基础上，该项目正在创建一个用于交互和协作可视化的多表面环境网络。研究人员将把这项研究从法国扩展到美国，并为两国的研究人员之间的远程合作开发新技术。所提供的资金将用于两项主要活动：1）到法国实地考察，了解目前的DIGISCOPE架构并举行研究会议; 2）在伯克利建造高分辨率墙原型，以便研究远程协作技术。该原型本身将作为美国和法国团队在首次访问后的主要通信工具。

This project will establish a collaboration between the University of California at Berkeley in the United States and the University of Paris-Sud and INRIA in France to explore architectures and interaction paradigms for multi-surface computing environments. Multi-surface environments are interactive workspaces that combine wall displays, handheld computing devices and traditional laptops. Such environments can be used to explore and manipulate "big data" in a variety of application domains, including product design, scientific discovery, decision-making and crisis management. Multi-surface computing environments raise multiple challenges: What are the appropriate interaction paradigms that make teams working in such spaces most effective? How can we facilitate successful collaboration among remote sites? What authoring tools and abstractions enable researchers to rapidly explore the space of multi-surface applications? This collaboration will contribute new theory, technology and empirical findings to understand remote collaboration in multi-surface environments. The project will build on the French DIGISCOPE project, which is creating a network of multi-surface environments for interactive and collaborative visualization. The researchers will extend the research from France to the US, and develop new techniques for remote collaboration between workspaces in both countries. The provided funds will be used for two main activities: 1) site visits to France to learn about the current DIGISCOPE architecture and hold research meetings; and 2) the construction of a high-resolution wall prototype at Berkeley to enable research into remote collaboration techniques. This prototype itself will serve as the primary communication tool between the US and French teams after initial visits.