TY - GEN
T1 - Coupling Co-presence in Physical and Virtual Environments Toward Hybrid Places
AU - Schaumann, Davide
AU - Duvdevani, Noam
AU - Elya, Ariel
AU - Levin, Ido
AU - Sofer, Tom
AU - Drusinsky, Ben
AU - Ozery, Ezra
AU - Raz, Ofek
AU - Feldman, Tom
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Recent advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) including Internet-of-Things (IoT), Extended Reality (XR), and Digital Twins (DT) enabled a massive leap toward the coupling of physical and virtual systems for working, living, learning, and playing. Current approaches mostly focus on augmenting physical environments with digital information to improve the design and operations of buildings and cities. Fewer approaches explored a deeper integration of physical and virtual environments to create places for meaningful social interactions across realities. In this paper, we discuss the concept of ‘hybrid places’ that couple elements of physical and virtual places to unlock new opportunities for situated social interactions. Specifically, we conceptualize a framework for hybrid places where a virtually-augmented physical place (the hybrid-physical) and a physically-augmented virtual place (the hybrid-virtual) dynamically interact to enable co-presence across realities. Following, we demonstrate a preliminary workflow where the presence of people in a physical place is detected through occupancy sensors and displayed in the coupled virtual place through VR technology; the presence of people in the virtual place is then displayed in the coupled physical place through AR technology. This paper aims at revisiting the concept of ‘place’ considering recent technology developments, and laying the foundation for future work that will explore the benefits and opportunities for hybrid places to promote social interactions and collaboration across physical and virtual realms.
AB - Recent advancements in information and communication technologies (ICT) including Internet-of-Things (IoT), Extended Reality (XR), and Digital Twins (DT) enabled a massive leap toward the coupling of physical and virtual systems for working, living, learning, and playing. Current approaches mostly focus on augmenting physical environments with digital information to improve the design and operations of buildings and cities. Fewer approaches explored a deeper integration of physical and virtual environments to create places for meaningful social interactions across realities. In this paper, we discuss the concept of ‘hybrid places’ that couple elements of physical and virtual places to unlock new opportunities for situated social interactions. Specifically, we conceptualize a framework for hybrid places where a virtually-augmented physical place (the hybrid-physical) and a physically-augmented virtual place (the hybrid-virtual) dynamically interact to enable co-presence across realities. Following, we demonstrate a preliminary workflow where the presence of people in a physical place is detected through occupancy sensors and displayed in the coupled virtual place through VR technology; the presence of people in the virtual place is then displayed in the coupled physical place through AR technology. This paper aims at revisiting the concept of ‘place’ considering recent technology developments, and laying the foundation for future work that will explore the benefits and opportunities for hybrid places to promote social interactions and collaboration across physical and virtual realms.
KW - Co-Presence
KW - Digital Twins
KW - Extended Reality
KW - Hybrid Places
KW - Physical and Virtual Environments
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-37189-9_35
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-37189-9_35
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AN - SCOPUS:85169010811
SN - 9783031371882
T3 - Communications in Computer and Information Science
SP - 532
EP - 546
BT - Computer-Aided Architectural Design. INTERCONNECTIONS
A2 - Turrin, Michela
A2 - Andriotis, Charalampos
A2 - Rafiee, Azarakhsh
T2 - 20th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Futures, CAAD Futures 2023
Y2 - 5 July 2023 through 7 July 2023
ER -