Michael Kelley
University of Southern California and ARPA
The approach is to create a persistent virtual world like for example a virtual laboratory that remote collaborators can enter and leave at will to collectively work on a design or visualization project. Unlike other virtual environments that present the same view to all its participants, this approach provides each participant with his/her own perspective that visualizes the information in a manner most relevant to their area of expertise. For example in the field of architectural design two collaborators might be an architect and a mechanical engineer. While the architect is more concerned with aesthetic issues of the design, the engineer might be more interested in stress analysis of the design. Although they share the same virtual world, the representations of the architecture they see should be decidedly different so that information relevant to each expert can be appropriately depicted.
In our demonstration, we use a system called CALVIN that embodies these principles for architectural layout design of octagonal tactical stations, called Octmods, that are used to construct ARPA's Enterprise room in Arlington, Virginia.
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