Augmenting Remote Presence For Interactive Dashboard Collaborations

Pizarro, Rodrigo; Hall, Mark; Bermell-García, Pablo; González-Franco, Mar

doi:10.1145/2817721.2823486

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“…However, if current software solutions partially and specifically address -e.g. in terms of online collaborative work, video conferencing, multi-users remote control or remote display -the issues raised by the "desktop of the future" [10], it must be noted that i) there is no integrated environment today around all of these elements and ii) data privacy is not always guaranteed which can be a serious problem of sovereignty for all strategic institutions. Whether they are research projects as well as commercial systems, there are many collaborative online solutions used today in areas such as health [11], collaborative visualization [3,4,8] and learning [12,13] with specific software developments related to whiteboarding collaboration [14,15,16] for instance.…”

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USE Together, a WebRTC-Based Solution for Multi-user Presence Desktop

Lucas¹,

Deleau²,

Battin³

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Ubiquitous is one of the essential features of what should be the desktop of the future. In practice, this concept covers several issues related to multi-users collaboration, remote applications control or remote display and secure access over IP networks. With its standards and capabilities, WebRTC provides a new vision of real-time communications services that can raise these challenges. In this paper we present a WebRTC-based middleware solution for real-time multi-users remote collaboration. It allows a full desktop setup where everyone can see what other users are doing and where they position themselves in the shared workspace. In contrast to standard WebRTC's Peer-to-Peer architecture, our system supports a synchronous communication model through a star topology. It also improves network bandwidth efficiency by using hardware video compression when the GPU resource is available, though assuring a very low latency streaming. In this way, we can maintain awareness and sense of presence without changing the usual practices of the users in front of a desktop. Several use cases are provided and a comparison of advantages and drawbacks of this solution is also presented to guide users in applying this technology under real-life conditions.

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