Collective authoring of collaborative AR spaces

Principal Investigator(s): Walter Lasecki Links to an external site., Computer Science Engineering; Steve Oney Links to an external site., School of Information; Mark Newman Links to an external site., School of Information; Michael Nebeling Links to an external site., School of Information

Unit(s) involved: School of Information, College of Engineering, and other instructive domains such as Medicine

Summary:  Collaborative spaces can help team communication by providing a shared context for team members. However, to be most effective, collaborative spaces must be customized for each team and collaborative activity, which is infeasible for spaces that are shared across multiple groups.

AR holds the promise of making spaces nearly infinitely reconfigurable through digital overlays on physical spaces and devices. These augmented spaces can enable new collaborative experiences that are tailored to a team’s needs by allowing team members to create shared AR objects and functionality on-the-fly.  

Our goal is to allow end users to tailor their collaborative spaces to dynamically changing team needs.