From Buddy Lists toBuddy Space

Enhanced Presence Management for Collaboration, Learning and Gaming

Presentation for VON Europe 2002Helsinki, Finland, June 12th, 2002

Marc Eisenstadt, Martin Dzbor & Yanna Vogiazou

Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK

(http://kmi.open.ac.uk)

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Virtual Universities…

• CMC

• WWW

• HTML

• TCP/IP

• IMS

• XML

• IRC

• VRML

Consider the UK’s Open University....

• YUK

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The Mother of AllVirtual Universities

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~3,000,000 students since 1969.

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Just this year...

400courses

160,000undergraduates

15,000postgraduates

35,000non-degree

13,000outside UK

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Moreover...

8,0008,000part-timepart-time

tutorstutors

4,000 exam venues4,000 exam venues(90 countries)(90 countries)

110,000110,000onlineonline

Top 10 (of >100) Top 10 (of >100) UK UniversitiesUK Universities

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Five key success factors…

QualityQualityContentContent

1QualityQuality

AccreditationAccreditation2

QualityQualitySupportSupport

3

QualityQuality(Shared)(Shared)

ExperienceExperience

4

QualityQualityResearchResearch

5

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…one of which brings me here

QualityQuality(Shared)(Shared)

ExperienceExperience

4

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KMi Stadium1995

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‘Presence’ in VON Classes/Events

Lyceum1998

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2000

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Key themes

• Quality experiences: ownership + focus + timetabled exercises + ‘breakout’ sessions

• ‘Pure presence’ appeals to users• ‘Dots on maps’ can scale up…• … by filtering + smart clustering algorithm• One-dimensional ‘buddy list’ evolves to a

multidimensional ‘Buddy Space’• Peripheral/powerful indicators of presence

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Presence can be defined

… as an aggregated view of an [object]’s dynamically changing attributesDr. R. Chakraborty (Versada Networks), JabberConf 2001

• Availability (“I’m logged on for a videoconference”)• Preference (“Only my boss can interrupt me now”)• Capability (“My device can accept video calls”)• Characteristics (“Translate to French”)• Location (“I’m in Munich… urgent calls only”)

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Massive/enriched presence

• Crowds: massive scale as asset rather than liability.

• Presence visualisation: stepping stone to scalability and enrichment of ways to convey presence.

• Presence semantics can help us think about more powerful ways to convey presence.

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BuddySpace IM

• Lightweight ‘radar view’

• ‘Pushed roster’ automatically constructed

• Custom maps

• Embeddable maps

• 9 screen-shots follow

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Plain chat

Embeddedbrowser for custom ‘newsflashes’ etc.

Automatic rosterconstructionduring login =personal tutorgroup, work groupetc.

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Typical view ofOU tutorial group

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Automatic mapconstructionfrom user data

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Smart inset chosen,depending onactual data

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Map & faces arecustomised; dotsdisplay true status

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Floorplan of lab;Dots are those ofinterest to me

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Campus map

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My composite‘daily view’

Group presence(can ‘drill down’)Group-wide

broadcast msgs

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Timeline view, e.g. which workpackage?

Massively multiplayer‘Mexican wave’ game

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Easy session synchronization

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Massive-Presence Games

Bumper cars

Time travel

Wireless ‘tag’

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Distributed Climate Modelling:www.climateprediction.com

Community Buildingwith Massive Presence

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(Image Courtesy Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction + Research)

A climate snapshot from the model in 2015…

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(Image Courtesy NASA Earthlights project)

Let’s see who’s running this screensaver…

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•Who else is running a similar climate model?•Where can I find complementary models?•Has anyone ‘reached’ year 2020 in their models?

Cluster:jsmith@jcp.com,cdoyle@jcp.com

Cluster:jsmith@jcp.com,cdoyle@jcp.com

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Semantic Filters: CoAKTinGCollaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid

• Elli is unable to attend a videomeeting but wants to be informed...

• She checks her client, and sees one query from the argumentation engine pending…

• She also sees that only one signature remains outstanding for a new bid

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CoAKTinG (2)• Elli checks the transcript in the argumentation engine to find

the origins of the pending query

• … she was referred to by Felix (a colleague) during the missed videomeeting

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‘Re-experience what you missed!’

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Links

• BuddySpace:http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/buddyspaceor just Google buddyspace

• The Open University:www.open.ac.uk

• Distributed climate modelling:www.climateprediction.com

• Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid:www.aktors.org/coakting