Objective
Specific aims include:
- A reconsideration of current notions of the user interface and its extension to support social participation between users rather than didactic patters of interaction with computer systems.
- Developing novel interaction metaphors and techniques which seamlessly combine information visualisation and access with social interaction.
- Reconsidering the notion of users of computer systems to allow them to become inhabitants of electronic spaces.
- Developing techniques for integrating electronic spaces with physical spaces including notions of shared augmented reality and shared augmented virtuality.
- Developing techniques to support very large-scale and heterogeneous systems
- Extending intelligent agents towards being inhabitants of social computing environments.
- Developing the necessary network and software infrastructure required to deliver these kinds of applications on platforms which will be available to the general citizen within a few years.
- Gathering experiences with the development, deployment and use of this kind of application as well as new methodologies for eliciting requirements and for carrying out evaluations.
- Gaining a greater understanding of the social, cultural and economic impacts of such applications.
Existing information systems adopt an individual perspective of use and assume that interaction is principally between a single user and a application. In contrast, INSCAPE addresses the need to extend such systems to provide greater support for social participation involving a number of users. The schema investigates the development of new spatial interaction techniques using technologies such as distributed virtual reality to transform current information systems into future social information spaces.
The increased prominence of Computer Support for Co-operative Work (CSCW) within Europe, the USA and Japan highlights the growing market for groupware products. It is imperative that Europe captures a significant share of this potential market. However, existing tools and techniques for developing applications focus on either single user interaction with an application or peer to peer communication between users. Little support is given for social endeavours where interaction involves the participation a potentially large number of distributed users and applications working in unison. The development and maturing of virtual reality systems and allied products offers the possibility of new interaction techniques to address these issues. INSCAPE responds to these trends and aims to develop techniques and supporting mechanisms for future distributed social IT systems by exploit a spatial paradigm of interaction.
This schema will conduct long term research into how to develop and populate large-scale social information systems aimed at the citizen. The eventual goal of this work is to transform such systems from being tools that support single users in accessing or transferring information into places (or virtual environments) where citizens work together with shared information. These spaces are formed from a combination of virtual reality (VR), augmented reality, multimedia and distributed systems technologies. The schema will apply these techniques to visualise and populate large-scale information systems.
The specific tasks involved in the schema will require researchers with experience in user interface systems, distributed information systems, multimedia and virtual reality techniques and will draw upon empirical studies of the real-world. The schema seeks to promote the social use of distributed information systems by providing techniques allowing citizens to inhabit future information systems and for a range of activities to take place within these virtual environments. One of the principle focusing mechanisms for the schema is the realisation of an on-line millennium event as a culmination of the schema.
This work should result in recommendations, new techniques, architectures and demonstrators of direct applicability to the development of citizen based information products. Results of the schema will provide input to future infrastructure standards, interface tool kits and applications.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationsvirtual reality
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwaresoftware applicationssimulation software
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