Synchronized Mixed Presence Data-Conferencing Using Large-Scale Shared Displays

Thomas Marrinan, Luc Renambot, Jason Leigh, Angus Forbes, Steve Jones, Andrew E. Johnson
2016 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces - ISS '16  
Real world group-to-group collaboration often occurs between partially distributed interdisciplinary teams, with each discipline working in a unique environment suited for its needs. Groupware must be flexible so that it can be incorporated into a variety of workspaces in order to successfully facilitate this type of mixed presence collaboration. We have developed two new techniques for sharing and synchronizing multi-user applications between heterogeneous large-scale shared displays. The
more » ... new technique partitions displays into a perfectly mirrored public space and a local private space. The second new technique enables usercontrolled partial synchronization, where different attributes of an application can be synchronized or controlled independently. This paper presents two main contributions of our work: 1) identifying deficiencies in current groupware for interacting with data during mixed presence collaboration, and 2) developing two multi-user data synchronization techniques to address these deficiencies and extend current collaborative infrastructure for large-scale shared displays.
doi:10.1145/2992154.2996780 dblp:conf/tabletop/MarrinanRLFJJ16 fatcat:5c3wrbkwwngmjnw46vth7msvsu