Interactive Collaboration Environments Laboratory

Mission

The mission of the Interactive Collaborative Environments Laboratory is to create a venue for faculty, staff and student researchers to explore and develop advanced technology applications for real-time, interactive, n-way connections among people separated by distance. These research projects will be used for actual collaboration, dissemination, and outreach functions in order to better undertake focused research and development efforts for technology improvements and to acquire a practical based understanding of the human factors issues and the social implications of specific technology choices.

Director

Gurcharan S. Khanna (Research Computing)

Co-Directors

John Albertini (NTID Research)

Jeff Pelz (CIS)

Jon Schull (IT)

Gary Skuse (Biology)

David Long (Digital Cinema)

Guy Johnson (CMS)

Projects

Building Connected Communities

RIT Global Collaboration Grid Poster

RIT Collaboration Grid

RIT Collaboration Grid Flyer

Access Grids in Teaching & Learning Environments

RIT Access Grids

CIS CyberPortal Project

CASCI Collaboration Venues Project

Philadelphia Orchestra Internet2 Project
(RIT Poster for Global Concert Series)

Two Way Web

NTID Hypersonic Speaker Evaluation

NTID CyberPortal Project

Reports

ICE Lab Manager's Six Month Report 3/27/08

ICE Lab Use & Planning 2006-7

ICE Lab Flyer

Bildung ohne Barrieren John Albertini, NTID, Martin Luther University, Halle, Germany

Staff

Andrew Ford (CS) Sp07, Su07 (co-op), Sp08 (student), W08-09 (co-op), Sp09 (temp)

Aabhas Garg W08-09, Sp09 (co-op)

Matt Leszczenski W08, Sp08 (student), F08 (co-op), W08-09 (student)

Melanie Cooper W08, Sp08 (student)

Keith Simmons F07, W08 (Lab Mgr.)

Ed Brannin (CS) F06 (student), W06 (co-op), Sp07, Su07 (Lab Mgr.)

Kingdon Barrett (CS) W06 (student)

Job Descriptions

Funding Sources

• Cisco Research Grant

• Sun Microsystems, Inc. Academic Equipment Grant

• Microsoft Research Equipment Grant

• The National Science Foundation student wages

• RIT capital equipment grant

• Research Computing student wages

Proposals

Cisco Research: Advanced Network Infrastructure (awarded)

Microsoft Research: Center for Advanced Collaboration Technology with Jon Schull (IT), Ila Parsnis (NTID), Joeanne Humbert (ETC)

NSF CI-Team Grant: with NJIT with Jon Schull, Steve Jacobs (IT)

Related Links

Virtual Live Musical Performances

• Metropolitan Opera

• Philadelphia Orchestra

• New World Symphony

Collaboration Go-Cart (U. Michigan Med School)

Panodomes

Immersive Media Applications and Future Internet

Future Projects

DVTS DV over IP (WIDE Project and Internet2)

DVTS interface development

Persistent, Public, Interactive n-way high definition video kiosks

HDV High Definition over IP (UW and McGill)

HDV compression and transmission development

H.323 systems interoperability (Commercial)

VRVS/EVO web gateway and collaboration system (CalTech)

3D Stereo Live Video for medical applications (Stanford and ANU)

Remote Operation of equipment for test engineering