Interactive Learning Spaces

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Interactive Learning Spaces

• Co-located cooperation in computer dense
  environments

Martin Jonsson (martinj_at_dsv.su.se)
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Topics

• What is really happening in the basement of the
  Gates building?
• What is an Interactive Workspace?
• Gates B23
• Current status
• Interactive Learning Spaces
• Interactive Workspaces and Learning
• Proposed project, Dynamic Team Rooms

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The Interactive Workspace project

• Interactive Rooms
• A multi-device, multi-user environment
• A generalized interaction architecture
• The Eventheap system architecture
• Interactive Murals
• Large high resolution wall displays
• Graphics toolkits
• Interaction styles and toolkits

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Gates B23
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Gates B23

• A multi device environment

Behind the screens
7 PCs 1 Linux Server ? nr of PDAs
Touch sensitive Tablet
Wireless Palm Pilot
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The Eventheap

• Creating a shared computing environment
• ThEventheap is a shared repository for events
• Allows robust dynamic configuration of devices
• Based on IBMs Tspaces
• Integrate standard applications by wrapping them

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Applications

• Today
• Multibrowsing
• Control Environment from PalmPilot
• Tomorrow
• Using any device as input to any application on
  any other device

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Interactive Workspaces and learning

• Increasing interest for PBL
• More work activities requires access to computers
• Increasing use of personal mobile computing
  devices
• Need for dynamic computer dense environments for
  cooperative work

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Interactive Workspaces and learning

• Todays computer dense environments
• promotes individual work (due to the P in PC)
• are static in the sense that its hard to
  integrate personal computing devices

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The Dynamic Team Room, a proposal

• The Dynamic Team Room provides
• an architecture that encourages social behavior
• public devices providing shared focus
• a shared repository of project data
• seamless integration of personal mobile devices
  into the environment

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The project data repository

• A shared space for project data such as
  documents, images and whiteboard notations.
• Makes possible seamless data flows across devices
• Allows for co-located as well as remote access of
  data

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Device specific renderings of data

• For a seamless data flow across heterogeneous
  devices the infrastructure must provide for
  device specific rendering of the shared data
• Proxies will live in the environment to
  facilitate the device connection with the
  repository
• Paths of data transformers can be dynamically set
  up to provide a suitable rendering of data

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The enhanced whiteboard

• A whiteboard-like interface to the project
  repository
• A public device, providing shared focus
• The prior UI to the repository. From here users
  can manipulate and organize the project data,
  make notations, and initiate applications for
  editing the data.

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Project Plan

• In the winter quarter Henrik Gustavsson, a Ph.D.
  student from KTH Sweden, will start working with
  the project.