{"id":3353,"date":"2024-11-13T11:08:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2025-03-18T06:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:35:25","slug":"collaboration-across-time-space-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/2024\/11\/13\/collaboration-across-time-space-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Collaboration Across Time, Space, and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of the finalists for the ISMAR 2023 Design competition with the theme, &#8220;<strong>Cross-Reality Systems for Real-World Scenarios<\/strong>&#8220;. We proposed a solution for performing literature review tasks in an immersive space with time-distributed and space-distributed collaborators. So our solution included both synchronous and asynchronous awareness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s the abstract from our submission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collaboration plays a vital role in both academia and industry whenever we need to browse through a big amount of data to extract meaningful insights. These collaborations often involve people living far from each other, with different levels of access to technology. Effective cross-border collaborations require reliable telepresence systems that provide support for communication, cooperation, and understanding of contextual cues. In the context of collaborative academic writing, while immersive technologies offer novel ways to enhance collaboration and enable efficient information exchange in a shared workspace, traditional devices such as laptops still offer better readability for longer articles. We propose the design of a hybrid cross-reality cross-device networked system that allows the users to harness the advantages of both worlds. Our system allows users to import documents from their personal computers (PC) to an immersive headset, facilitating document sharing and simultaneous collaboration with both colocated colleagues and remote colleagues. Our system also enables a user to seamlessly transition between Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and the traditional PC environment, all within a shared workspace. We present the real-world scenario of a global academic team conducting a comprehensive literature review, demonstrating its potential for enhancing cross-reality hybrid collaboration and productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s our prototype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ISMAR23 Contest ~ Collaborative Literature Review across Reality Virtuality Continuum\" width=\"1333\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rvap4Vc_Xyk?modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"teachpress_pub_list\"><form name=\"tppublistform\" method=\"get\"><a name=\"tppubs\" id=\"tppubs\"><\/a><\/form><div class=\"teachpress_publication_list\"><h3 class=\"tp_h3\" id=\"tp_h3_inproceedings\">Proceedings Articles<\/h3><div class=\"tp_publication tp_publication_inproceedings\"><div class=\"tp_pub_info\"><p class=\"tp_pub_author\">Ibrahim A Tahmid; Francielly Rodrigues; Alexander Giovannelli; Lee Lisle; Jerald Thomas; Doug A Bowman<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_title\">CoLT: Enhancing Collaborative Literature Review Tasks with Synchronous and Asynchronous Awareness Across the Reality-Virtuality Continuum <span class=\"tp_pub_type tp_  inproceedings\">Proceedings Article<\/span> <\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_additional\"><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_in\">In: <\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_booktitle\">2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), <\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_pages\">pp. 831\u2013836, <\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_organization\">IEEE <\/span><span class=\"tp_pub_additional_year\">2023<\/span>.<\/p><p class=\"tp_pub_menu\"><span class=\"tp_bibtex_link\"><a id=\"tp_bibtex_sh_213\" class=\"tp_show\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('213','tp_bibtex')\" title=\"Show BibTeX entry\" style=\"cursor:pointer;\">BibTeX<\/a><\/span><\/p><div class=\"tp_bibtex\" id=\"tp_bibtex_213\" style=\"display:none;\"><div class=\"tp_bibtex_entry\"><pre>@inproceedings{tahmid2023colt,<br \/>\r\ntitle = {CoLT: Enhancing Collaborative Literature Review Tasks with Synchronous and Asynchronous Awareness Across the Reality-Virtuality Continuum},<br \/>\r\nauthor = {Ibrahim A Tahmid and Francielly Rodrigues and Alexander Giovannelli and Lee Lisle and Jerald Thomas and Doug A Bowman},<br \/>\r\nyear  = {2023},<br \/>\r\ndate = {2023-01-01},<br \/>\r\nurldate = {2023-01-01},<br \/>\r\nbooktitle = {2023 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct)},<br \/>\r\npages = {831\u2013836},<br \/>\r\norganization = {IEEE},<br \/>\r\nkeywords = {},<br \/>\r\npubstate = {published},<br \/>\r\ntppubtype = {inproceedings}<br \/>\r\n}<br \/>\r\n<\/pre><\/div><p class=\"tp_close_menu\"><a class=\"tp_close\" onclick=\"teachpress_pub_showhide('213','tp_bibtex')\">Close<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the finalists for the ISMAR 2023 Design competition with the theme, &#8220;Cross-Reality Systems for Real-World Scenarios&#8220;. We proposed a solution for performing literature review tasks in an immersive space with time-distributed and space-distributed collaborators. So our solution included both synchronous and asynchronous awareness. Here&#8217;s the abstract from our submission. Collaboration plays <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/2024\/11\/13\/collaboration-across-time-space-and-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":330,"featured_media":3354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[27,536,78],"ppma_author":[395,501,479,398,491,391],"class_list":["post-3353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects","tag-augmented-reality","tag-contest-project","tag-virtual-reality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2024\/11\/featured_image.png","authors":[{"term_id":395,"user_id":330,"is_guest":0,"slug":"iatahmid","display_name":"Ibrahim Tahmid","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2020\/12\/ibrahim.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2020\/12\/ibrahim.jpg"},"author_category":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.iatahmid.com\/","last_name":"Tahmid","first_name":"Ibrahim","job_title":"","description":"Ibrahim is a fifth year Ph.D. Student advised by Dr. Doug Bowman. His research interest focuses on assisted sensemaking in virtual reality. More specifically, he works on how eye gaze can be used to infer the user-perceived relevance of information during sensemaking and how to leverage that inference to build intelligent recommender models for the immersive space to think."},{"term_id":501,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"francielly","display_name":"Francielly (Elly) Rodrigues","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/10\/D9E7D095-A562-459F-A5D2-77F36EE71D1C-scaled.jpeg","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/10\/D9E7D095-A562-459F-A5D2-77F36EE71D1C-scaled.jpeg"},"author_category":"1","user_url":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/franciellyrodrigues","last_name":"Rodrigues","first_name":"Francielly (Elly)","job_title":"Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow","description":"<span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Francielly (Elly) Rodrigues is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Tech\u2019s College of Engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in Computational Modeling from the National Laboratory of Scientific Computing in Brazil. Her research lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction and artificial intelligence. Her interests center on context-aware and intelligent Extended Reality (iXR) systems, particularly how immersive interfaces can sense contextual information about the user, task, and environment, reason over it, and adapt accordingly. This adaptability is essential for XR to be practical and effective in everyday life. The broader impact of her work is to create XR solutions that enhance productivity, communication, well-being, and accessibility across a wide range of applications, from education and medicine to everyday tasks.<\/span>"},{"term_id":479,"user_id":383,"is_guest":0,"slug":"agiovannelli","display_name":"Alexander Giovannelli","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2022\/05\/IMG_6776-e1651771320966.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2022\/05\/IMG_6776-e1651771320966.jpg"},"author_category":"1","user_url":"https:\/\/agiovannelli.github.io\/","last_name":"Giovannelli","first_name":"Alexander","job_title":"","description":"My expertise lies at the intersection of human-computer interaction, extended reality, and computer-supported cooperative work. I investigate how immersive environments can support effective remote and cross-temporal collaboration, with a growing focus on integrating AI assistance into collaborative XR workflows."},{"term_id":398,"user_id":105,"is_guest":0,"slug":"llisle","display_name":"Lee Lisle","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2020\/12\/leeLisle.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2020\/12\/leeLisle.jpg"},"author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Lisle","first_name":"Lee","job_title":"","description":"Lee is a 5th-year Ph.D. candidate. His Ph.D. work centers around human-computer interaction and immersive analytics with multimedia document sets."},{"term_id":491,"user_id":390,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jeraldlt","display_name":"Jerald Thomas","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/40fdf3e679a9fa569c550ef9d902c0cf522e3b45c16851da0cc9bd87d09c1635?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"https:\/\/jeraldthomas.com","last_name":"Thomas","first_name":"Jerald","job_title":"","description":"Jerald will fill this in later"},{"term_id":391,"user_id":331,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dbowman","display_name":"Doug Bowman","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/01\/professional_photo2_2019-cropped-square-smaller-scaled.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2021\/01\/professional_photo2_2019-cropped-square-smaller-scaled.jpg"},"author_category":"1","user_url":"","last_name":"Bowman","first_name":"Doug","job_title":"","description":"Doug A. Bowman is the Frank J. Maher Professor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.vt.edu\">Computer Science<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vt.edu\">Virginia Tech<\/a>. He is the principal investigator of the <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/\">3D Interaction Group<\/a>, focusing on the topics of three-dimensional user interfaces, VR\/AR user experience, and the benefits of immersion in virtual environments.\r\n\r\nDr. Bowman is one of the co-authors of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pearson.com\/us\/higher-education\/program\/La-Viola-3-D-User-Interfaces-Theory-and-Practice-2nd-Edition\/PGM101825.html\">3D User Interfaces: Theory and Practice<\/a>. He has served in many roles for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ieeevr.org\">IEEE Virtual Reality Conference<\/a>, including program chair, general chair, and steering committee chair. He also co-founded the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (now part of IEEE VR). He received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation for his work on 3D Interaction, and has been named an ACM Distinguished Scientist. He received the Technical Achievement award from the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee in 2014 and the Career Impact Award from IEEE ISMAR in 2021.\r\n\r\nHis undergraduate degree in mathematics and computer science is from Emory University, and he received his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/people.cs.vt.edu\/~bowman\/cv.pdf\">Curriculum vitae (PDF)<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3353\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3353"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/3digroup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}