A few days ago, HCI Lab
researchers in collaboration with Konica Minolta, published a paper at Frontiers
in ICT entitled ‘An Interactive and Multimodal Virtual Mind Map for Future
Workplace’. The paper presents multimodal VR collaborative interfaces that
facilitate various types of intelligent ideation/brainstorming (or any other
mostly creative activity). Participants can be located in different
environments and have a common goal on a particular topic within a limited
amount of time.
Users can group (or ungroup)
actions (i.e., notes belonging in a specific category) and intuitively interact
with them using a combination of different modalities. Ideally, the multimodal
interface should allow users to create actions and then post it on the virtual
mind map using one or more intuitive methods, such as voice recognition,
gesture recognition, and through other physiological or neurophysiological
sources. Finally, users can access the content and assess it.
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