Austin Tate [Ai Austin]

AIAI, University of Edinburgh

Open Virtual Collaboration EnvironmentAustin Tate (Ai Austin)

3D Views onto the Internet

3D Views onto the Internet

Social Networking

Content Management

Instant Messaging

Intelligent Agents

Semantic Web

Web Services

Community Knowledge

VoIP

Teleconferencing

Collaborative Systems

Agent Presence

Open Virtual Collaboration Environment

• Web-based Collaboration Portal– Drupal CMS

– Also explored Facebook, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Ning Groups, Joomla CMS, Drupal CMS

• Virtual World 3D Space– Second Life

– Opensim (potentially behind a firewall)

• Virtual Collaboration Protocol– Standard Operating Procedures

– FAQ and Tips

– Protocol (Rob Cross, University of Virginia)

Conceptual Overview – Jeff Hansberger

Conceptual Overview – Jeff Hansberger

OpenVCE.net Current Site Layout

OpenVCE.net Current Site Layout

Navigation

Context &Awareness

Navigation

CommunityCollab.

Community News& Alerts

Main ContentNavigationNavigation

Quick Access Links

OpenVCE – Roles of Elements

• Blog – personal web log

• Forum – threaded discussion within community

• Wiki – community knowledge creation and refinement

• Books Page – edited content and index pages (change by admins and group leaders only)

• Comment – can be added to most elements

3D Space via Adobe Connect for Web Observers

3D Space Link via I-Say Chat and Twitter

Handling Presentations

Handling Presentations

Handling Presentations

VenueAmphitheatre

I-Zone B

I-Zone A

Projectand

TeamSuites

Sandbox

Expo Pavilion

CentralPlaza

Hill TopOrientation

Area

JOEGeoDome

Virtual Collaboration Environment AssetsVersion: 1.3Revision Date: 13-Aug-2009

Description: Freely available buildings, landscaping elements and textures to support the creation of collaborative and other facilities in virtual worlds such as Second Life and Opensim. A set of assets are available for use in Second Life (and may be used in Opensim). They are distributed under the open source Lesser GPL licence.

 The assets include:

•Central Plaza•Orientation Area•Amphitheatre (configurable for 1 to 4 sims)•Breakout Rooms•Expo Pavilion•Large Project Room•Small Project Room•HQ Building•Box of Landscaping Elements•Box of Textures•Box of Orientation Signs

I-Room/I-ZoneRevision Date: 4-Aug-2009

Description: A two storey building with central area and 4 work zones, designed for collaborative and brain storming style meetings. Can be used an as operations centre. Plenty of wall space for displays and gadgets. Each of the 4 corners can easily be converted to a small two storey block, or a larger double height block. The I-Room style buildings are used in the I-X/I-Room research on intelligent collaborative and task support environments at AIAI, The University of Edinburgh.

The OpenVCE approach makes use of modular components from many other open source contributors and communities, and are available under their respective licences. Most parts are available from their normal open source download site.

OpenVCE.net

In development…

Drupal Themes

Google Wave

Links between Web Collaboration Portal and 3D Space

Links between Real User Profile and 3D Space Avatar

SL-UserI-TagI-HUDI-Room

Links between Web Collaboration Portal and 3D Space

OpenVCE.net Support for the Virtual Collaboration Protocol

Creating SOPs using the OpenVCE.net Wiki

I-Zone: Intelligent Interactive Instrumented 3D Space

http://openvce.net