New Views & New Tools for Collaboration

1. New Views & New Tools for Collaboration Martin BrooksLeader, Broadband Visual Communication Research ProgramNRC Institute for Information Technology

2. Welcome … and thank you! Broadband Visual Communication (BVC) Research Program collaborates with research partners and user communities to co-develop new technologies and behaviors for collaboration. BVC Objectives technology transfer human capacity building This talk leveraging diversity authentic user communities broadband tools

3. Leveraging Diversity • collaboration outcomes grow nonlinearly with diversity • multi-discipline multi-sector • challenges strengths • language & meaning • multi-stakeholder = not all goals common • no ascribed power • network management, not hierarchy • “In the future, all your employees will be volunteers.”

4. geocultural & organizational diversity

5. Diversity …… takes you places you have never been before art & science & education international interdepartmental industrial Israel - Palestine Finland Australia Heritage DFAIT music technology multimedia production music eLearning

6. Authentic user communities - a key to technology transfer • Authentic users • Doing their real work. • Not in it for technology. • Role: • Provide requirements. • Feedback on prototype technology.

7. Innovation cycle R&D User Communities Product Development Market $$

8. Authentic user community shortcut User Communities R&D Product Development Market $$

9. Authentic user community engagement model research impact access relevance trust do it right! analyze & report

10. New tools for collaboration • Broadband internet vs today’s commodity & high speed internet • Objective difference: streamed video • Subjective difference: connect people to people • Broadband visual communication • See & hear each other • Broadband collaborative tools for digital media • Create and analyze digital content • Broadband haptic tools • Feel and generate physical forces.

11. Broadband Visual Communication • Synchronous BVC • Evolution of video conference • Engagement • Quality of Experience • Asynchronous BVC • Evolution of video servers • Communicating with and around video • PrivateVideo

24. Thank you! • Never been a better time for R&D collaboration. • To make collaboration work, the collaborators need to be “hungry” for collaboration.