Paper Reading #13

Comments
Shena Hoffmann
Chris Kam

Refrence Information
Title - TwinSpace: an infrastructure for cross-reality team spaces

Authors -Derek F. Reilly, Hadez Rouati, Andy Wu, Jee Yeon Hwang, Jeremy Brudvik, W. Keith Edwards

UIST 2010

	Summary

   This paper discusses the idea of combining a virtual workspace with a physical one. The software is called TwinSpace. It supports physical mapping between the work spaces. This software uses an almost dual-reality within the virtual and physical spaces. Working in larger groups can become confusing at times because of this.  In this virtual workspace, people are represented that are present in the physical workspace as well. Event notification is also a very large aspect of TwinSpace. This allows for users to see what happened, and when. TwinSpace conducted a couple studies on the product. The first included a team brainstorming ideas in one room while one person held a presentation on the material in another .

Discussion
    I really like the concept of TwinSpace. It seem that business today is moving toward a multi-dimensional workspace. This allows for users all over the world to interact and discuss whatever is needed. I also like the event driven functionality. With so many users working together it is important that progress is tracked and viewable for late joiners to the meeting. Also, this allows for everybody to see how an idea was conceptualized.