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Demo: JazzSpace: Workspace for Collaborative Sense-making using Spatial Arrangements of Objects

Student: Sameer Patil

Advisor: Paul Dourish

Abstract: When dealing with a collection of entities, it is often crucial to understand the various ways in which different entities are related with each other. However, extracting and specifying the underlying relationships can be quite tedious and complex when dealing with large collections. One approach to deal with this complexity is to infer possible relationships amongst objects from the manner in which they are laid out spatially. JazzSpace is a tool for working with a large collection of objects. It can act as a shared workspace amongst multiple people working together remotely to synchronously create, organize and manipulate objects in a collection. JazzSpace provides panning and zooming capabilities for managing the large workspace. Groupings of objects are dynamically inferred based on various common spatial arrangements (e.g. alignment, piling etc.) as objects are created, manipulated and organized within the workspace. These groupings can then be used for collective manipulation of the group as a whole. The groupings indicate possible relationships amongst objects which can aid in various sense-making activities. Dynamically recognizing the spatial relationships removes the burden from the users of explicitly creating and specifying various groups, and allows them to concentrate on the more important task of organizing the objects in meaningful ways.

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