Authors:
Bernd Eßmann
1
;
Thorsten Hampel
1
and
Frank Goetz
2
Affiliations:
1
Heinz Nixdorf Institute, University of Paderborn, Germany
;
2
University of Paderborn, Germany
Keyword(s):
Collaborative visualization, remote visualization, computer supported cooperative work, video streaming.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Internet and Collaborative Computing
;
Object Orientation in Internet and Distributed Computing
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Telecommunications
;
Wireless and Mobile Computing
;
Wireless and Mobile Technologies
;
Wireless Information Networks and Systems
Abstract:
In this paper we present our approach of combining open and sophisticated technologies in order to establish an integrated rich media environment for collaborative visualization processes. Aiming to support comprehensive visualization settings of spatially separated domain specialists, we deploy remote render farms for producing the visualization of complex datasets as video streams, separately for every collaboration partner. This makes our system capable also for low-end mobile devices, which only have to be able to render MEPG-4 compliant video streams. The cooperation support is provided by a full-featured CSCW system including a shared whiteboard based on the platform independent Eclipse framework. The visualization objects are embedded in the CSCW system’s persistent object space and presented by the rich media view of the shared whiteboard. Starting with a basic scenario of collaborative visualization we will present the architecture of the combined visualization and CSCW syst
ems and the design of the plug-in based shared whiteboard.
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