Virtual Awareness Card for adaptability in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Jean-Baptiste Aupet (1) , Nabil Elmarzouqi (1) , Eric Garcia (1) , Jean-Christophe Lapayre (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

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.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Informatique ubiquitaire

Jean-Baptiste Aupet, Nabil Elmarzouqi, Eric Garcia, Jean-Christophe Lapayre. Virtual Awareness Card for adaptability in Collaborative Virtual Environments. SETIT 2009, 5th Int. Conf. on Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications, 2009, Tunisia. pp.228--234. ⟨hal-00563297⟩