Alice.org. Gesture Project Overview. Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Carnegie Mellon University As the workforce becomes increasingly distributed across space and time and increasingly mobile, the need to collaborate with remote partners to accomplish collaborative tasks has risen substantially. Collaboration between two or more people is now supported by a wide variety of technological tools. Most systems to date, however, are designed to support group activities which can be performed without reference to the external spatial environment.
Development of systems to support collaborative physical tasks, in which two or more individuals work together to perform actions on concrete objects in the three-dimensional world, has been slower. Observational studies of physical collaboration suggest that people's speech and actions are intricately related to the position and dynamics of objects, other people, and ongoing activities in the environment. The research has three broad aims: Human-Computer Interaction Institute - Carnegie... Interactive Systems Laboratories: interACT. Good Things Should Never End - Orange's Unlimit... Big Think - We Are What You Think.