Improving Collaboration E ciency via Diverse Networked Mobile Devices

We introduce a framework for distributed or co-located teams to collaborate highly e ciently using diverse mobile devices for design and assessment of complex systems. Our framework enhances the e ciency of collaborations arising in design, simulation or data analysis, including visualization. First, we investigate which requirements on such a collaboration framework exist and which influences between task models have to be taken into account; afterwards we transfer those findings into a prototypical system. The devices provide three views of data to be processed collaboraF. A. Rupprecht Computergraphics and HCI University of Kaiserslautern Tel.: +49 631-2053265 E-mail: [email protected] G. Kasakow Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems University of Kaiserslautern Tel.: +49 631-2054210 E-mail: [email protected] J. C. Aurich Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Production Systems University of Kaiserslautern Tel.: +49 631-2052617 E-mail: [email protected] B. Hamann Department of Computer Science University of California, Davis Tel.: +1 530-754-9157 E-mail: [email protected] A. Ebert Computergraphics and HCI University of Kaiserslautern Tel.: +49 631-2053502 E-mail: [email protected] tively: (1) a simulation view; (2) a status report view; and (3) a status update view. These views serve the purpose of providing overview, detail and performance views. A smart watch view shows at-a-glance information, the environment or the process being inspected, possibly influenced by a user. Users can use their mobile devices as control interfaces. The framework is especially e↵ective for combining the synergistic, complementary competencies of a team. We describe the design of our framework and discuss specific applications.