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Supporting Face-toface Group Activities with a Sensor-Embedded Board. CSCW Workshop on Shared Environments to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration (2000)
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@MISC{Sugimoto00supportingface-toface,
author = {Masanori Sugimoto and Fusako Kusunoki and Hiromichi Hashizume},
title = {Supporting Face-toface Group Activities with a Sensor-Embedded Board. CSCW Workshop on Shared Environments to Support Face-to-Face Collaboration},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes a system called ePro for supporting face-to-face group activities. ePro connects a sensorembedded board and a computer simulation, and is currently used to discuss urban planning and environmental problems. Group members collaboratively construct a town by placing pieces such as houses on the board. The computer simulation program automatically recognizes the arrangement of pieces on the board. It then visualizes environmental changes of the town through simulations. The visualization shown to the group members amplifies interaction between them, and gives them feedback for their further actions. Keywords interaction, face-to-face collaboration, combining physical and virtual worlds, sensor-embedded board AUTHORS ’ BACKGROUNDS AND MOTIVATIONS Our research group is composed of three main investigators. Their backgrounds are computer science, cognitive science, electrical engineering, respectively. The goal of our research is to develop a new computational medium for supporting group activities and evaluate it. We have constructed an electronically enhanced board that can quickly recognize objects placed on its surface. This board is applied to a system for supporting people working for urban planning and environmental problems in a “face-toface” situation. In this workshop, we would like to talk about the technological aspects and effects of our system, and explore the possibility of new applications through discussions.
Keyphrases
face-to-face collaboration sensor-embedded board face-toface group activity cscw workshop shared environment urban planning group member environmental problem environmental change computer simulation program cognitive science research group face-toface situation main investigator technological aspect computer science new computational medium group activity sensorembedded board computer simulation sensor-embedded board author background motivation virtual world new application face-to-face group activity keywords interaction electrical engineering
