Title :
An architecture for collaboration in virtual environments
Author :
Shirmohammadi, Shervin ; Georganas, Nicolas D.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont., Canada
Abstract :
We introduce an architecture for performing closely-coupled collaborative tasks in virtual environments. Our architecture consists of an application-layer model based on higher-level user interactions with shared objects, and a communication protocol for dissemination of collaborative update messages among participants
Keywords :
groupware; software architecture; transport protocols; virtual reality; VRTP; Virtual Reality Transport Protocol; application-layer model; closely-coupled collaborative tasks; collaboration; collaborative update messages; communication protocol; higher-level user interactions; shared objects; update messages; virtual environments; Automatic repeat request; Avatars; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Electrical capacitance tomography; Information technology; Multicast protocols; Transport protocols; Vehicles; Virtual environment;
Conference_Titel :
Virtual Reality, 2000. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
New Brunswick, NJ
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0478-7
DOI :
10.1109/VR.2000.840511
