An Ontology for Designing a Collaborative Platform Involving a Multi-touch and Multi-user Interactive Table

Céline Joiron, Frédéric Fürst, Gilles Kassel, Alistair Jones, Jean-Paul Barthès, Claude Moulin, Dominique Lenne

2013

Abstract

We have developed a platform running on a large multi-touch and multi-users table. Its intended application domain is the collaborative preliminary design phase of engineering projects. We also developed an ontology describing the virtual objects of the platform and the projects on which users collaborate. In this paper we first present the originality of this ontology. It extends the DOLCE-CORE ontology in order to model the true nature of the virtual objects that the users can manipulate on the device and the users’ actions. We then present the different roles played by the ontology in the development of the platform. It serves as a reference of the semantics for the designers of the collaborative platform and as a model of the environment including table, participants, projects, etc. This model is mainly used by the intelligent agents of a multi-agent system whose objective is to support the participants during a working session around the table.

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Joiron C., Fürst F., Kassel G., Jones A., Barthès J., Moulin C. and Lenne D. (2013). An Ontology for Designing a Collaborative Platform Involving a Multi-touch and Multi-user Interactive Table . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-81-5, pages 156-163. DOI: 10.5220/0004539401560163


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@conference{keod13,
author={Céline Joiron and Frédéric Fürst and Gilles Kassel and Alistair Jones and Jean-Paul Barthès and Claude Moulin and Dominique Lenne},
title={An Ontology for Designing a Collaborative Platform Involving a Multi-touch and Multi-user Interactive Table},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={156-163},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004539401560163},
isbn={978-989-8565-81-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: KEOD, (IC3K 2013)
TI - An Ontology for Designing a Collaborative Platform Involving a Multi-touch and Multi-user Interactive Table
SN - 978-989-8565-81-5
AU - Joiron C.
AU - Fürst F.
AU - Kassel G.
AU - Jones A.
AU - Barthès J.
AU - Moulin C.
AU - Lenne D.
PY - 2013
SP - 156
EP - 163
DO - 10.5220/0004539401560163