http://smg.media.mit.edu/projects/TeleAction

Collaborative Tele-directing

Judith Donath, Dana Spiegel, Matt Lee, Kelly Dobson

Sociable Media Group, MIT Media Laboratory

Ken GoldbergUC Berkeley

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Collaborative Tele-direction

Allows a geographically distributed group of people to

collaboratively control a shared, remote resource.

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Example Application: Tele-acting

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A Tele-direction Interface

Participants can:

• Communicate with each other

• Follow the action

• Easily create and vote for goals

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The Directing Community

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Setting Goals and Voting

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Applications

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Collaborative Gaming

• Different process for creating goals

• Different time-course for voting

• Different level of interaction

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Collaboration ServerJava-based server supports generic TeleAction environments

Video ServerRe-broadcasts Actor’s live A/V stream to Directors

Director’s ClientJava-based application uses QuickTime to receive Actor’s

broadcastSends and receives chat and vote information to Collaboration

Server

ActorLaptop in backpack broadcasts live QuickTime A/V stream to

Video ServerGoals are delivered via an arm-mounted LCD panelGoals are also shown on chest, so other people can know what’s

going on

Implementation

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