I-Room - Intelligent Room - the Knowledgeable Room

Proposal from Austin Tate, AKT Project

I have floated with several of you the idea of creating an "intelligent room" to act as a knowledge aid to support AKT teleconferencing and meetings initially but later to be a wider idea of providing a knowledge assistant in any location a user wishes via whatever presentation methods are appropriate. An initial focus could be simply to provide aids for use of E20 for AKT teleconferences and AKT project meetings. The project could be a good base for all sorts of plug in student projects too.

I wanted to give you some ideas on things we might look at to explore this idea...

• The Knowledge Wall projects in the US. E.g.
  • http://www-tadmus.spawar.navy.mil/STRATMUS.htm
  • http://www-tadmus.spawar.navy.mil/
• The Mitre Collaborative Virtual Workspaces projects with its buildings, rooms, participants and artifacts metaphor.
  • CVW/ or http://cvw.sourceforge.net
  • CVW Intelligent Multimodal Participants
• Knowledge Sharing Tools for use in I-Rooms:
  • Compendium Institute Suite of Collaboration and Group Memory Tools.
• Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC) Concept Map Software
  • Case-Based Capture and Reuse of Aerospace Design Rationale using Concept Maps
  • Explanation and Collaboration through Concept Maps

CVW is a collaboration software environment that provides a "virtual building" where teams can communicate, collaborate, and share information, regardless of their geographic location. CVW takes virtual meetings one step further and enables virtual co-location through persistent virtual rooms, each incorporating people, information, and tools appropriate to a task, operation, or service.