Austin Tate [Ai Austin]
AIAI, University of Edinburgh
Open Virtual Collaboration EnvironmentAustin Tate (Ai Austin)
3D Views onto the Internet
3D Views onto the Internet
Social Networking
Content Management
Instant Messaging
Intelligent Agents
Semantic Web
Web Services
Community Knowledge
VoIP
Teleconferencing
Collaborative Systems
Agent Presence
Open Virtual Collaboration Environment
• Web-based Collaboration Portal– Drupal CMS
– Also explored Facebook, Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Ning Groups, Joomla CMS, Drupal CMS
• Virtual World 3D Space– Second Life
– Opensim (potentially behind a firewall)
• Virtual Collaboration Protocol– Standard Operating Procedures
– FAQ and Tips
– Protocol (Rob Cross, University of Virginia)
Conceptual Overview – Jeff Hansberger
Conceptual Overview – Jeff Hansberger
OpenVCE.net Current Site Layout
OpenVCE.net Current Site Layout
Navigation
Context &Awareness
Navigation
CommunityCollab.
Community News& Alerts
Main ContentNavigationNavigation
Quick Access Links
OpenVCE – Roles of Elements
• Blog – personal web log
• Forum – threaded discussion within community
• Wiki – community knowledge creation and refinement
• Books Page – edited content and index pages (change by admins and group leaders only)
• Comment – can be added to most elements
3D Space via Adobe Connect for Web Observers
3D Space Link via I-Say Chat and Twitter
Handling Presentations
Handling Presentations
Handling Presentations
VenueAmphitheatre
I-Zone B
I-Zone A
Projectand
TeamSuites
Sandbox
Expo Pavilion
CentralPlaza
Hill TopOrientation
Area
JOEGeoDome
Virtual Collaboration Environment AssetsVersion: 1.3Revision Date: 13-Aug-2009
Description: Freely available buildings, landscaping elements and textures to support the creation of collaborative and other facilities in virtual worlds such as Second Life and Opensim. A set of assets are available for use in Second Life (and may be used in Opensim). They are distributed under the open source Lesser GPL licence.
The assets include:
•Central Plaza•Orientation Area•Amphitheatre (configurable for 1 to 4 sims)•Breakout Rooms•Expo Pavilion•Large Project Room•Small Project Room•HQ Building•Box of Landscaping Elements•Box of Textures•Box of Orientation Signs
I-Room/I-ZoneRevision Date: 4-Aug-2009
Description: A two storey building with central area and 4 work zones, designed for collaborative and brain storming style meetings. Can be used an as operations centre. Plenty of wall space for displays and gadgets. Each of the 4 corners can easily be converted to a small two storey block, or a larger double height block. The I-Room style buildings are used in the I-X/I-Room research on intelligent collaborative and task support environments at AIAI, The University of Edinburgh.
The OpenVCE approach makes use of modular components from many other open source contributors and communities, and are available under their respective licences. Most parts are available from their normal open source download site.
OpenVCE.net
In development…
Drupal Themes
Google Wave
Links between Web Collaboration Portal and 3D Space
Links between Real User Profile and 3D Space Avatar
SL-UserI-TagI-HUDI-Room
Links between Web Collaboration Portal and 3D Space
OpenVCE.net Support for the Virtual Collaboration Protocol
Creating SOPs using the OpenVCE.net Wiki
I-Zone: Intelligent Interactive Instrumented 3D Space
http://openvce.net