Supporting Artefact Awareness in Partially-Replicated Workspaces

Poh, E., Tang, A., Lee, J., and Zhao, S. (2023). Supporting Artefact Awareness in Partially-Replicated Workspaces. In ISMAR23 Workshop: 1st Joint Workshop on Cross Reality.

Abstract

Using Cross Reality (CR) approaches for remote collaboration will often result in partially-replicated workspaces. Here, workspace artefacts are not equally accessible—i.e. a physical artefact may only be manipulated by one collaborator—and in general, the artefacts become desynchronised over time. In this paper, we introduce a framework for artefact awareness that can help collaborators main- tain an understanding of each others’ manipulations with workspace artefacts. We illustrate our design explorations through sketches, and outline how we aim to study the effectiveness and utility of artefact awareness in cross reality remote collaboration. In our work, we expect to show that effectively supporting artefact awareness will help make cross-reality remote collaboration smoother.

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2023-ismar2023workshop-poh-artefact-awareness.pdf)
URL (https://cross-realities.org)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{poh2023artefactawarenessworkshop,
  url = {https://cross-realities.org},
  type = {workshop},
  year = {2023},
  pdfurl = { http://hcitang.org/papers/2023-ismar2023workshop-poh-artefact-awareness.pdf},
  editor = {Hai-Ning Liang and Hans-Christian Jetter and Frank Maurer and Uwe Gruenefeld and Mark Billinghurst and Christoph Anthes},
  booktitle = {ISMAR23 Workshop: 1st Joint Workshop on Cross Reality},
  abstract = {Using Cross Reality (CR) approaches for remote collaboration will often result in partially-replicated workspaces. Here, workspace artefacts are not equally accessible—i.e. a physical artefact may only be manipulated by one collaborator—and in general, the artefacts become desynchronised over time. In this paper, we introduce a framework for artefact awareness that can help collaborators main- tain an understanding of each others’ manipulations with workspace artefacts. We illustrate our design explorations through sketches, and outline how we aim to study the effectiveness and utility of artefact awareness in cross reality remote collaboration. In our work, we expect to show that effectively supporting artefact awareness will help make cross-reality remote collaboration smoother.},
  title = { Supporting Artefact Awareness in Partially-Replicated Workspaces },
  author = {Poh, Emran and Tang, Anthony and Lee, Jeannie S., and Zhao, Shengdong},
}