Human-human Collaboration Formalism for Groupware Tailorability in Collaborative Augmented Environments

Samir Benbelkacem, Nadia Zenati-Henda, Hayet Belghit, Samir Otmane, Abdelkader Bellarbi

2015

Abstract

In this paper, human-human collaboration formalism has been proposed to support groupware tailorability for Collaborative Augmented Environments (CAE). Our work is based on the 3C functional model proposed by Ellis. This model decomposes the collaboration into communication, coordination and production. This decomposition has been adapted to design tailorable groupware for CAE. A new concept called “distribution” has been introduced to consider the properties of collaborative and distributed 3D environment. A new formalism integrating this concept is proposed in order to adapt a groupware system to the real need of users evolving in 3D shared scene. Multi-agent technology is, therefore, used to determine the collaboration protocol between humans, through machines, over the network for implementing the desired tailorability.

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Benbelkacem S., Zenati-Henda N., Belghit H., Otmane S. and Bellarbi A. (2015). Human-human Collaboration Formalism for Groupware Tailorability in Collaborative Augmented Environments . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-087-1, pages 498-503. DOI: 10.5220/0005358604980503


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@conference{grapp15,
author={Samir Benbelkacem and Nadia Zenati-Henda and Hayet Belghit and Samir Otmane and Abdelkader Bellarbi},
title={Human-human Collaboration Formalism for Groupware Tailorability in Collaborative Augmented Environments},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={498-503},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005358604980503},
isbn={978-989-758-087-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: GRAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2015)
TI - Human-human Collaboration Formalism for Groupware Tailorability in Collaborative Augmented Environments
SN - 978-989-758-087-1
AU - Benbelkacem S.
AU - Zenati-Henda N.
AU - Belghit H.
AU - Otmane S.
AU - Bellarbi A.
PY - 2015
SP - 498
EP - 503
DO - 10.5220/0005358604980503