Collaboration in parallel worlds

Authors:
Ashutosh Morde;Jun Hou;S. Kicha Ganapathy;Carlos Correa;Allan Krebs;Lawrence Rabiner
Affiliations:
Rutgers University, NJ;Rutgers University, NJ;Rutgers University, NJ;Rutgers University, NJ;Rutgers University, NJ;Rutgers University, NJ
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Year:
2004

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Abstract

We present a novel paradigm for human to human asymmetric collaboration. There is a need for people at geographically separate locations to seamlessly collaborate in real time as if they are physically co-located. In our system one user (novice) works in the real world and the other user (expert) works in a parallel virtual world. They are assisted in this task by an Intelligent Agent (IA) with considerable knowledge about the environment. Current tele-collaboration systems deal primarily with collaboration purely in the real or virtual worlds. The use of a combination of virtual and real worlds allows us to leverage the advantages from both the worlds.