awareness of cooperative activities in mixed realities
Wolfgang Prinz, Uta Pankoke-Babatz · 2001
The TOWER environment creates, in parallel to the usage of groupware, a so-called of work” supplying awareness information. When performing an activity using a groupware application, avatars and their symbolic actions on the virtual stage represent the users and their current actions on shared objects. Avatars of users who work in a similar context appear spatially close in the theatre of work. The scenery of the stage is generated from the artefacts shared through the groupware application. The groupware application and the theatre of work are interconnected by means of the internet based TOWER event infrastructure. The theatre of work is presented as a multi user 3-D world on ambient displays in a user work setting to provide awareness of cooperative activities in mixed realities. Project URL: http://tower.gmd.de/