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。

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.