Informal Tringular Collaboration on CatchBob!

Philip Jeffrey from the Human Communication Technologies Laboratory of the University of British Columbia, came to visit Nicolas and I at the CRAFT. He came to planify an informal triangular collaboration around CatchBob!

A first successful step was to share the code of CacthBob! and make it run in Vancouver. People at UBC, plan to extend it to a “Chase Bob” (with one or many moving Bobs). Nicolas and I have plans for a richer task “Clue2Clue”. We will collaborate on setting these environments, sharing datas, publishing and hopefully organizing a workshop.

Main partners would be:

• Philip Jeffrey, University of British Columbia, Human Communication Technologies Laboratory
• Mike Blackstock, University of British Columbia, Human Communication Technologies Laboratory
• Nicolas Nova, Swiss Federal Institue of Technology Lausanne, Center for Research and Support of Training and its Technologies
• Fabien Girardin, University of Pompeu Frabra, Interactive Technology Group

We all share a common set of research interests. During the discussion, I wrote down the main topics covered by CatchBob and that Nicolas and/or want to continue investigating with the system:
- location awareness (impact on collaboration, automatic/manual positioning)
- uncertainty management (impact on the collaboration and gap between the designer and user conceptual models. Communication latency, positioning accuracy, unpredictability of connectivity, sense of trust)
- collaborative map annotation (annotations and the relations of their meaning to the map. ).

Nicolas mentions more…