The Importance of Shared Visual Environments for Collaborative Tasks
This
project is part of the NSF's foundation-wide effort
called Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
(KDI). The primary goals of this research are to understand more completely
the role of shared visual spaces in both face-to-face and mediated settings, to
discover how the usefulness of visual information interacts with tasks and
participants, and to identify ways in which video-based systems can truly
support remote collaborative work. Researches
will include:
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Building communication Prototypes and conducting empirical research to see what bundles of media attributes will improve performance in a complex, distributed, collaborative task |
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Developing and evaluating technology that makes it easier for participants in distributed collaborate tasks to share and coordinate focus of attention |
Taken together, these research activities will have a substantial impact on improving human performance in medical, educational, and vehicular repair. A longer introduction of this project can be find here.
