Authors:
Michael J. Murphy
1
;
Michael Dick
2
and
Michael Lawrie
2
Affiliations:
1
Hochschule der Medien, Germany
;
2
Ryerson University, Canada
Keyword(s):
Collaboration, Engineering Design, Videoconferencing, 3D Visualization, Telework, Cross-Cultural Communication, Translation, Access Grid.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
e-Business and e-Commerce
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Society, e-Business and e-Government
;
Tele-Work and Collaboration
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
Abstract:
Through a review of literature and experimentation with enabling technologies, it was concluded that the Access Grid (an open-source, videoconferencing platform) held significant potential to facilitate the sharing of audiovisual material in the area of collaborative industrial design; however, it would have to be extended to allow for high-definition visualization and remote desktop control. As a result, researchers in Canada and Germany developed new tools to accomplish this, and utilized them to remotely manipulate industrial designs in real-time and with very low latency. Additionally, automated captioning and translation services were developed to better facilitate cross-cultural business-to-business collaboration. Future research directions for this project involve the continued prototyping of these tools, leading either to their deployment within industry or further improvement within the Access Grid Community.