{"title":"Client-side rendering of collaborative idea networks","authors":"N. Jorgenson, R. Gamble","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261081","url":null,"abstract":"When distributed teams brainstorm and discuss ideas toward solving a non-trivial problem, it is essential to maintain the temporal and content connections of the discussion, identify to ideas for response, and track conversations to determine emerging problem solutions in order to achieve greater benefit from the collaboration. Our Web 2.0 technology visualizes these connections, identifications, and emerging solutions in the form of a network graph display of connected idea nodes representing posts whose internal content can be viewed by hovering over the node of interest. A user can respond to a post by clicking on it and using the provided post template. Current methods of server-side graph rendering consume too much time when the graph reaches a certain size, limiting user interaction because of refresh delays of the user and other team member posts. Since the objective of the forum is to be nearly as efficient as a chat, we devised a novel method of client-side graph rendering that integrated seamlessly with the existing technology and provided extraordinary timing improvements independent of the depth and breadth of the graphs.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128540005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ECCA: Augmentative Communication Collaborative Environment","authors":"Andrea Guisen, C. Sanz, A. D. Giusti","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261063","url":null,"abstract":"The research work presented in this paper belongs to the area of Computer Technology applied to Special Education. In this context, the design of a collaborative web system (ECCA) is presented. This system incorporates features to facilitate Augmentative Communication, devised as a technology aid for the development of communication competencies in students with Complex Communication Needs. Details are provided regarding previous research work carried out to better understand the needs of the target group and the decision-making process of ECCA. Finally, the conclusions and future lines of work are presented.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117332744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Privacy-preserving collaborative filtering based on horizontally partitioned dataset","authors":"Arjan Jeckmans, Qiang Tang, P. Hartel","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261088","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, recommender systems have been increasingly used by companies to improve their services. Such systems are employed by companies in order to satisfy their existing customers and attract new ones. However, many small or medium companies do not possess adequate customer data to generate satisfactory recommendations. To solve this problem, we propose that the companies should generate recommendations based on a joint set of customer data. For this purpose, we present a privacy-preserving collaborative filtering algorithm, which allows one company to generate recommendations based on its own customer data and the customer data from other companies. The security property is based on rigorous cryptographic techniques, and guarantees that no company will leak its customer data to others. In practice, such a guarantee not only protects companies' business incentives but also makes the operation compliant with privacy regulations. To obtain precise performance figures, we implement a prototype of the proposed solution in C++. The experimental results show that the proposed solution achieves significant accuracy difference in the generated recommendations.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"133 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117271247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bluetooth-based architecture for android communication with an articulated robot","authors":"S. V. Delden, Andrew Whigham","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261035","url":null,"abstract":"In industrial robotic environments, there are many different robots performing a variety of tasks. Each robot is controlled by its own teach pendant or via a networked socket application. However, to monitor the status or make minor changes to the programming of the robot, the user must obtain access to the teach pendant or terminal. In an effort to eliminate this need, this paper introduces an android platform that communicates with robots over a Bluetooth connection.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"356 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114755465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the relationship between changes in distributed system behavior and group dynamics","authors":"Shaimaa Y. Lazem, D. Gračanin, S. Harrison","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261073","url":null,"abstract":"What, if any, are the effects of the changes in distributed systems behavior on the social dynamics of distributed groups? The rapid evolution of cloud infrastructures, portable devices and multimedia services has enabled cooperation among strangers in online environments that lack quality of service guarantees. Group members experience delays and inconsistencies in the shared state. Previous research on delays focuses on tightly-coupled tasks and assumes that individual and group interests are aligned. In reality, individual participation in a group depends on how a participant weighs the value and the cost of cooperation. That tension is well captured in mixed-motive tasks (e.g., a social trap). A study was conducted, where 15 groups performed a loosely-coupled task that simulates social traps. Group members experienced a gradual degradation of system performance in the form of complex delays. Groups exhibited different adaptation patterns to the changes in the system behavior. There is no guarantee that group adaptation will always keep the status quo. System interventions are needed to maintain group dynamics.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"03 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127452450","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A hands-off, multi-robot display for communicating situation awareness to operators","authors":"J. Crossman, Robert P. Marinier, Edwin Olson","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261036","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we introduce work toward this goal of enabling an operator to effectively maintain situation awareness over a team of heterogeneous robots. Most existing operator control units (OCUs) are designed for tele-operation of a single robot and require the constant attention of the operator. As the role of robots increase in important fields such as bomb disposal; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR); and search and rescue it becomes critical to improve this ratio by enabling multiple robots to be monitored and controlled by a single operator. Toward this goal we have developed the Situations, Actions, Goals, and Environment (SAGE) interface, which utilizes numerous techniques for maintaining operator situation awareness by aiding the operator's perception, comprehension, and projection when controlling a team of ground robots. Techniques that we developed include dynamic view control, event detection and prioritization, uncertainty display, view-invariant markers to make state information globally visible, and animations to avoid jarring distractions. SAGE's interface was automated making it completely hands off, thus the operator could save interaction time for critical tasks such robot tasking. SAGE was deployed by Team Michigan as part of its OCU suite in the 2010 Multi-Autonomous Ground-robotic International Challenge (MAGIC). Team Michigan won this competition in part because of its innovative OCU designs, including SAGE, that enabled two operators to control 14 robots simultaneously - a 1-to-7 operator to robot ratio, higher than any other team.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"16 9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128184918","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaborative coupling of sensing and actuation: uncertainty beyond querying","authors":"Goce Trajcevski","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261047","url":null,"abstract":"This talk will present an opportunity for extending the role of spatio-temporal uncertainty beyond its traditional realm of data management. The main motivation is that, in practice, it is often the case that the devices that perform sensing/management are either within the same embedded system, or a closely coupled with the devices the perform actuation. However, the actuation (which typically implements some control logic) may have an additional impact on the system under consideration.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124921522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A preliminary model for comfortable approach distance based on environmental conditions and personal factors","authors":"Brittany A. Duncan, R. Murphy","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261117","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a model of “comfortable distance” that captures the factors and conditions known to affect personal space in human-human and human-robot interactions, as well as any identified relationships between them. In the first known human-robot interaction (HRI) survey on approach distance, 19 papers were reviewed and the “comfortable distance” model was synthesized with three distinct types of inputs: environmental conditions, personal factors, and agent factors. Five environmental conditions (lighting, ceiling height, indoor/outdoor, room size, and barrier height) and seven personal factors (gender, age, mood, personality, pet ownership, robot experience, and sitting/standing) structure the model, with four agent factors (angle of approach, height of agent, speed of approach, and gaze) used as tuning parameters to produce behaviors with appropriate distances. Currently, HRI researchers generally focus on one factor at a time (e.g., approach angle or approach speed), without considering the previous work in adjacent fields, such as psychology and other social sciences. This has resulted in environmental factors being ignored by the HRI community. The “comfortable distance” model is a new tool for HRI researchers and is expandable so that it can incorporate new factors as they are identified. This survey will inform researchers about factors which had been previously overlooked in the field of HRI and will allow future researchers to consider the impact of identified variables to create more complete experiments.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124326220","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queen bee generation method in hive and its application in sensor networks","authors":"K. Mahata","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261114","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a scheme to select the gateway node in WSN. The scheme is inspired by the queen bee selection method in a hive. The queen bee is the leader of a hive, and the dynamics of the hive is controlled by the queen bee. The selection process of queen bee in hive is presented and modelled here first. Motivated by this natural process, we present here a technique to select the gateway node in WSN which outperforms over the existing protocols. A set of rules are synthesized to develop such method.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134432792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging social media to support collaborative e-learning","authors":"R. Atkinson","doi":"10.1109/CTS.2012.6261060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/CTS.2012.6261060","url":null,"abstract":"The advent of social media has spawned a surge of open-source, user-created intelligence available through online media such as blogs, wikis and social networks. This session will outline reflections on and work towards harnessing the power of social media for instructional purposes by incorporating empirically-derived instructional design principles to scaffold their use. It specifically addresses the current and potential uses of social media in a variety of formal and informal learning contexts. The session will include examples for applying “traditional” best practices for implementing instructionally-enhanced social media applications for collaborative e-Learning.","PeriodicalId":200122,"journal":{"name":"2012 International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems (CTS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130973169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}