Co-habited mixed realities
Walter Van de Velde · 1997
This paper proposes the concept of Co-Habited Mixed Reality, and argues how it serves as a basis for large-scale social interaction systems and communityware. The technology that it implies is aimed at focusing a large potential for interaction such that effectiveness of participation to large scale events is enhanced. We illustrate the idea with scenarios from an ongoing project (COMRIS: co-habited mixed reality information spaces), implementing the cohabited mixed reality for a large conference site or fare. Several of the key issues involved in this realization are briefly summarized. Work from other projects that demonstrates the feasibility is also described. This paper is submitted to the IJCAI-97 workshop on Social Interaction and Communityware, and contains original and previously unpublished work. 1 Co-Habited Mixed Reality In this paper we are concerned with concepts and technologies that can enhance a variety of social processes in large and informally structured groups. Th...