Marvin:  Supporting Awareness through Audio in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Martin Kaltenbrunner; a Huxor

doi:10.1007/978-1-4471-0293-9_19

Marvin: Supporting Awareness through Audio in Collaborative Virtual Environments

Martin Kaltenbrunner, a Huxor

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Abstract

This paper describes Marvin, an awareness support agent written in Java. The system provides audio cues, text-to-voice and voice recognition, and currently operates as a bot in ActiveWorlds, an Internet-based, shared 3D virtual environment. The ActiveWorlds space was designed to facilitate chance encounters between members of distributed work groups, and Marvin was written to overcome the problems that arose in use. Audio allows us to free the user from both attending to the screen, and also from being present at only one virtual location within the world, drastically enhancing the chances of encounter. It also blurs the boundaries between the virtual and physical workplace.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Digital Content Creation
Editors	Rae Earnshaw, John Vince
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Springer
Pages	294–303
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4471-0293-9
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4471-1079-8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0293-9_19
Publication status	Published - 2001

Keywords

Computer Graphics
Image Processing and Computer Vision
Multimedia Information Systems

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