CoAKTing IFD

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CoAKTing IFD

Objective is to advance the state of the art in collaborative mediated spaces for distributed e-Science collaboration through the novel application of knowledge technologies

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Collaboratory Concept

“A centre without walls in which the nation’s researchers can perform their research without regard to geographical location – interacting with colleagues, accessing instrumentation, sharing data and computational resource, and accessing information in digital libraries”

1993 NSF study

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Scenario

Meeting rooms linked over network Potentially labs too – and smart spaces in

general Events in rooms provide annotation, e.g.

Use of documents Moving through agenda Slide transitions People arriving and leaving Note taking

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AKTspects

Ontologies to enhance media-rich annotations of group problem solving

Planning and knowledge based task support to enhance issue-based process/activity discussions

Scholarly discourse and argumentation to enhance collaborative meeting structures

Presence and visualisation to enhance group peripheral awareness at a distance

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History of proposal Early discussions about CVW and

experiments Discussions with Nigel and Tom Rodden

about ‘Next Generation Access Grid’, and the Advanced Collaborative Environments Working group of the Global Grid Forum

Existing work at partner sites Continuous metadata Knowledgeable devices (Equator bridge) Compendium, BuddySpace Intelligent Process Panels

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Technical innovation in physical and digital life

Henke Muller (Bristol), Matthew Chalmers (Glasgow), Adrian Friday (Lancaster), Steve Benford, Tom Rodden (Nottingham),

Bill Gaver (RCA), David De Roure (Southampton), Yvonne Rogers (Sussex), Anthony Steel (UCL)

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Growing Presence of the Digital in the Physical World

Increasingly RichDigital environments

Fully Converged Digital and

Physical Environment

Limited DigitalEnvironment

FTPShared Info

Stores

Conferencingand Groupware

Systems

Web andVirtual Worlds

NetworkedPCS

Multi User Machines

Mainframes

Mobile DevicesWearables

Novel Displays

Seamless Meshing of Digital and Physical Interaction

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Key Issues

The move from computers as specialist devices to everyday products

The move from identified user to general citizen

The involvement of new design approaches e.g. art and design traditions

The development of new devices and new forms of interaction

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FOHM

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Compendium Compendium centres on face-to-face meetings enabling groups to elicit, organise and validate

information improving communication between disparate

communities tackling ill-structured problems real time capture and integration of hybrid

material (both predictable/ formal, and unexpected/informal) into a reusable group memory

transforming the resulting resource into the right representational formats for different stakeholders.

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I-X Process Panels

I-X Planning Process Panels are based on explicit models of the planning process

Can coordinate the development and evaluation of multiple courses of action

Provides workflow coordination and visualisation

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Jabber

Jabber is an XML-based, open-source system and protocol for real-time messaging and presence notification.

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Workplan Workpackage 1:

Using ontologies to annotate and contextualise collaborative exchange

Workpackage 2: Capturing and recording key features of

meetings Workpackage 3:

Exploiting knowledge of presence and presence of knowledge

Workpackage 4: Dealing with issues in asynchronous meetings

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Source: Keith Jeffery