HCC: Small: Telecollaboration in Physical Spaces

HCC：小型：物理空间中的远程协作

• 批准号: 1219261
• 负责人: Matthew Turk
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Barbara
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1219261&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Telecollaboration; Physical; Spaces

The goal of this project is to develop and evaluate novel methods for telecollaboration - remote collaboration that effectively integrates video and voice communication, computer vision based tracking, and augmented reality display in order to enable participants to more fully leverage the local physical environment in their remote interactions. In this telecollaboration paradigm, remote and local users will interact with the physical environment using models derived from live imagery from a camera that the local user holds or wears, rather than merely passively viewing the video stream. A key aspect of the approach is that it does not require preparation of the environment or model information, so it can be viewed as an "anywhere, anytime" mobile communication technology. Intellectual merit: The proposed research builds on promising preliminary work on telecollaboration showing the effectiveness of world-stabilized "telepointers" - markers controlled by the remote user that stick to the real-world referents in a dynamic environment. The project will advance the state of the art in remote collaboration by providing new capabilities to integrate real and virtual, verbal and spatial, local and remote. The proposed developments are needed in order to make the physical space a more fundamental part of telecollaboration, and significant user studies will be conducted to acquire a better understanding of the opportunities and limitations of physically-grounded remote interaction. Broader impacts: Better, more compelling tools for telecollaboration can have a tremendous impact in terms of productivity and environmental consequences, as improved remote interaction reduces the need for physical collocation and thus travel. The educational impacts of the project include the training and mentoring of graduate students and a new seminar course. The research team will disseminate research results and collected data widely and use the developed technologies to provide outreach opportunities for select groups to participate in lab open houses.

该项目的目标是开发和评估远程协作的新方法——有效集成视频和语音通信、基于计算机视觉的跟踪和增强现实显示的远程协作，以使参与者能够更充分地利用远程的本地物理环境。互动。在这种远程协作范例中，远程和本地用户将使用从本地用户持有或佩戴的相机的实时图像导出的模型与物理环境进行交互，而不是仅仅被动地观看视频流。该方法的一个关键方面是它不需要准备环境或模型信息，因此它可以被视为“随时随地”的移动通信技术。 智力价值：拟议的研究建立在远程协作方面有希望的初步工作的基础上，该工作显示了世界稳定的“远程指针”的有效性 - 由远程用户控制的标记，在动态环境中粘附到现实世界的指示物。该项目将通过提供集成真实与虚拟、语言与空间、本地与远程的新功能来推进远程协作的最先进水平。为了使物理空间成为远程协作的更基本部分，需要进行拟议的开发，并且将进行重要的用户研究，以更好地了解基于物理的远程交互的机会和局限性。 更广泛的影响：更好、更引人注目的远程协作工具可以在生产力和环境影响方面产生巨大影响，因为改进的远程交互减少了物理配置的需要，从而减少了旅行。该项目的教育影响包括研究生的培训和指导以及新的研讨会课程。研究团队将广泛传播研究成果和收集的数据，并利用开发的技术为选定的群体提供参与实验室开放日的外展机会。