Virtual Awareness Card for adaptability in Collaborative Virtual Environments

This article exposes the concept of Virtual Awareness Card in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVE). This concept allows users to send information about their preferences and their hardware and software properties. Our approach is focused on the Awareness in order to use the awareness information to ensure the adaptability of various sites in the collaborative environment. The VAC is used in the CVE during the synchronous and asynchronous sessions to assure a collaborative work using heterogeneous support and multitude tools. VAC concept is based on three awareness directives: Convenience Awareness, Preferential Awareness and Restrictive Awareness. The goal is ultimately to offer adapted workspace to increase the awareness among the collaborators. In function of information of Virtual Awareness Card, collaborators can interact with more possibilities and make more efficient use of workspace functionalities. We'll show with several scenarios the use of the VAC in CVE of telemedicine to show the increase of possibilities offered by this concept.

[1]  Kjeld Schmidt,et al.  Computer Supported Cooperative Work: New challenges to systems design , 1999 .

[2]  Pedro M. Ruiz,et al.  Improving user-perceived QoS in mobile and wireless IP networks using real-time adaptive multimedia applications , 2002, The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications.

[3]  Tsuhan Chen,et al.  Networked Intelligent Collaborative Environment (NetICE) , 2000, 2000 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. ICME2000. Proceedings. Latest Advances in the Fast Changing World of Multimedia (Cat. No.00TH8532).

[4]  S. Greenberg,et al.  The Importance of Awareness for Team Cognition in Distributed Collaboration , 2001 .

[5]  Alex Galis,et al.  Programmable Network Context Adaptation for Content Delivery Services , 2005, Net-Con.

[6]  Jean-Christophe Lapayre,et al.  ACCM: a New Architecture Model for CSCW , 2007, 2007 11th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design.