I-Room: a Virtual Space for Emergency Response for the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team

An I-Room is an “intelligent room” which can act as a knowledge aid to support collaborative meetings, especially those involving sense-making about the current context, planning and considering options, and decision-making. It can be used to provide an Emergency Response Virtual Collaboration Centre in a Virtual World. The I-Room will provide a generic technology basis for a wide range of potential collaborative applications and uses. As a specific application its potential use to support multi-national multi-agency operations by the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team (MPAT) is described.