Austin Tate [Ai Austin] AIAI, University of Edinburgh

Open Virtual Collaboration Environment Austin Tate (Ai Austin)

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

OpenVCE.net Current Site Layout

Navigation Context & Awareness Navigation Community Collab. Community News & Alerts Main Content Navigation 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

Venue Amphitheatre I-Zone B I-Zone A Project and Team Suites Sandbox Expo Pavilion Central Plaza Hill Top Orientation Area JOE GeoDome

Virtual Collaboration Environment Assets Version: 1.3 Revision 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-Zone Revision 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-User I-Tag I-HUD I-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