A SPATIAL IMMERSIVE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT FOR COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK - Moving Towards the Office of the Future

Maarten Dumont, Sammy Rogmans, Steven Maesen, Karel Frederix, Johannes Taelman, Philippe Bekaert

2011

Abstract

In this paper, we present our work in building a prototype office environment for computer-supported collaborative work, that spatially – and auditorially – immerses the participants, as if the augmented and virtual generated environment was a true extension of the physical office. To realize this, we have integrated various hardware, computer vision and graphics technologies from either existing state-of-the-art, but mostly from knowledge and expertise in our research center. The fundamental components of such an office of the future, i.e. image-based modeling, rendering and spatial immersiveness, are illustrated together with surface computing and advanced audio processing, to go even beyond the original concept.

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Dumont M., Rogmans S., Maesen S., Frederix K., Taelman J. and Bekaert P. (2011). A SPATIAL IMMERSIVE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT FOR COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK - Moving Towards the Office of the Future . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-72-0, pages 212-216. DOI: 10.5220/0003567702120216


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@conference{sigmap11,
author={Maarten Dumont and Sammy Rogmans and Steven Maesen and Karel Frederix and Johannes Taelman and Philippe Bekaert},
title={A SPATIAL IMMERSIVE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT FOR COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK - Moving Towards the Office of the Future},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={212-216},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003567702120216},
isbn={978-989-8425-72-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2011)
TI - A SPATIAL IMMERSIVE OFFICE ENVIRONMENT FOR COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE WORK - Moving Towards the Office of the Future
SN - 978-989-8425-72-0
AU - Dumont M.
AU - Rogmans S.
AU - Maesen S.
AU - Frederix K.
AU - Taelman J.
AU - Bekaert P.
PY - 2011
SP - 212
EP - 216
DO - 10.5220/0003567702120216