Simon Buckingham Shum David De Roure Marc Eisenstadt Nigel Shadbolt Austin Tate
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Simon Buckingham ShumDavid De Roure
Marc Eisenstadt Nigel Shadbolt
Austin Tate
CoAKTinG partners
BT ExactNapp Pharmaceuticals
Comb-e-ChemNASA
Overview
Component approaches Integration Current work on application of tools Future work (but needs funding!)
CoAKTinG Background
“The CoAKTinG Project aims to support and enhance e-Science collaborations.”
Exploiting technologies, tools and methodologies where already available…
…and augment these with novel ones where necessary.
2 year project - started June 2002: Funded by UK e-Science Programme.
Involves a total of ~15 PIs, Researchers, Students.
Access Grid
Room based videoconferencing with large format display
supports group-to-group interactions across the Grid. supports interaction and visualisation. nodes in 150 institutions worldwide. routine use in UK e-Science programme.
Also available as single machine solution Personal Interface to the Grid (PIG).
Can also use Virtual Rooms VideoConferencing System (VRVS).
In fact collaboration can use any video- and teleconferencing facilities.
…to Support and Enhance e-Science Collaborations
mapping real time discussions/group
sensemaking
enacting decisions/coordinating activities
synthesising artifacts
recovering information from meetings
awareness ofcolleagues’ ‘presence’
virtual meetings
BuddySpace
Presence: “an aggregated view of an entity’s dynamically changing attributes”:
Availability (“I’m logged on for a videoconference”) Preference (“Only my boss can interrupt me now”) Capability (“My current device can accept video calls”) Location (“I’m in Munich…urgent calls only”)
BuddySpace - enriched ‘instant messaging’ client:
Awareness of people…and other resources. Editable maps for better visualisation of presence. Advanced group chat facilities with voting, attention
meters… Provides lightweight communications channel (based on
Jabber IM protocol).
awareness ofcolleagues’ ‘presence’
BuddySpaceBuddySpaceawareness ofcolleagues’ ‘presence’
Compendium
Tool for real-time capture and visualisation of argumentation (“collective sense-making and group memory”). Based on gIBIS notions: issues (questions),
answers, arguments (pros/cons), decisions, etc.
Connecting ideas: visually, by sets, metadata and hypertext links.
Free-form and template-driven discussions.
Underlying XML representations: interoperable with other tools via Jabber.
mapping real time discussions/group
sensemaking
Compendium: Compendium: mapping arguments mapping arguments
and decision rationaleand decision rationale
mapping real time discussions/group
sensemaking
enacting decisions/coordinating activities I-X
I-X technology provides an environment for handling issues, performing activities, placing constraints, etc.
Founded on generic <I-N-C-A> activity ontology.
CoAKTinG roles: Support meeting environment set-up
activities; Support ‘meeting process’ activities; Networked ‘To-Do’ lists for issue-handling
and activity tracking.
synthesising artifacts
Process Panel (I-P2)
Domain Editor (I-DE)
Activity Editor
Messenger
I-Space
enacting decisions/coordinating activities
synthesising artifacts
I-X
Record andReplay
Capturing meetings, experiments, visualisations… Many potential information streams: video,
audio, Powerpoint, Jabber, Compendium…
…for context-rich playback. Ontology-based approach - annotation
of streams allows synchronised playback, ‘smart’ navigation, etc…
Interlinks information using Semantic Web technologies.
recovering information from meetings
Meeting replay by time, speaker, contribution to discussion, and decision
…to Support and Enhance e-Science Collaborations
mapping real time discussions/group
sensemaking
enacting decisions/coordinating activities
synthesising artifacts
recovering information from meetings
awareness ofcolleagues’ ‘presence’
virtual meetings
BuddySpace
NetMeeting
Access Grid Node
Compendium
Replay
I-X Tools
Interim ResultsSeptember 2003
Integration work
Conceptual Extending the AKT Reference Ontology Mapping and cross-fertilisation between two issue-
management ontologies Technical
Off-the-shelf Jabber-based integration 3 tools freely available for download Intelligent team rosta management Integration between Compendium,
I-X, BuddySpace, Meeting replay tool
Key Contributions• Support variable levels of formality in communication• Real time semantic annotation of discussions• Events ontology for e-Science collaboration• Context-driven collaboration tools
Conceptual integration:Extending the Reference Ontology
Extensions to support:• generation of multimedia presentations (e.g.
millisecond representations of time)
• meetings distributed across several (physical and virtual) locations
• exhibition of information objects as events (e.g. slides; videos; documents)
• meeting-specific (compound) information bearing objects (versions of resources used in meetings)
• annotation events (e.g. verbal comments, creation of Compendium nodes)
Technical integration: Jabber interoperability
BuddySpace
Compendium
I-X Process panels
Meeting Replay
BuddySpace
Compendium
I-X Process panels
Jabber Server
Current ActivitiesApril 2004
NASA Scenario
Compendium maps from trained compendium astronaut
Remote Science Team (RST) on earth e.g. geologistsVideo and
Science Data
2. Virtual meeting of RSTusing CoAKTinG tools
Plan for nextDay’s EVA
1. Astronauts debrief on EVA
Mars
Image from NASA
NASA Press ReleaseCollaborative and Assistant Systems Research AreaWork Systems Design and Evaluation GroupMOBILE AGENTS PROJECT COMPLETES OPERATIONAL READINESS TEST AT AMES "MARSCAPE“…In addition, the Mobile Agents work involves a collaboration with the Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) of the Open University and the Intelligence, Agents and Multimedia group (IAM) of the University of Southampton in the UK, led by Dr. Simon Buckingham-Shum from KMi and Dr. Danius Michaelides from IAM. The collaboration also includes the ScienceOrganizer team from Code IC, led by Dr. Dan Berrios. The collaboration with these three teams evolves around the development of tools for science collaboration between a Mars Crew and a distributed Earth-based Remote Science Team. The Earth-based Remote Science Team is led by Shannon Rupert of the Mars Society.
Comb-e-Chem
Shallow integration Deployment of generic tools
Deep integration Buddyspace shows status of equipment and results Process panels for experimental processes in the lab Record and replay can be applied to lab experiments Compendium to support scientific discourse All interaction is recorded and interlinked
Comb-e-Chem
www.smarttea.org
Scenarios – eResponse
Storyboard / talk-piece Facilitate a team of experts to coordinate a response to
a disaster An oil spill in the Solent
I-X Process Panels Coordinate activities via SOPs
Buddyspace Access to online scientists
Compendium Record argumentation
Meeting Replay
Future work Deploy these tools as part of the collaborative
e-Research environment Customise tools to particular applications Perform user evaluation
Additional tools Fully integrate with e.g. Comb-e-Chem
research agenda “Chain ReAKTinG” – ready to go
Many important Semantic Web challenges Coupling with pervasive devices Apply in new areas such as performing arts Apply to other collaboration technologies
CoAKTinG Links
CoAKTinG Project: www.aktors.org/coakting
BuddySpace: kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/buddyspace
Compendium: kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/compendium
I-X: i-x.info
Replay: www.iam.ecs.soton.ac.uk/projects/hystream
www.aktors.org/coakting