CollabSpace

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CollabSpace An Advanced Geospatial
Collaboration Environment Nigel Tzeng,
PIJennifer Ockerman, Nathan Koterba, Osbaldo
Cantu Johns Hopkins University - Applied Physics
Laboratory
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Background

• Command and Control (C2) is one area of interest
  for JHU/APL
• Collaboration in C2 can be broken down into
  general categories
• Geospatial Where are we/them?
• Process How far along in doing X are we?
• Temporal When do we/they get there?
• Identification What are they?
• Decision Making What do we go about X?

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Focus Geospatial Chat

• Geospatial
• Maps
• Planning
• Common Operational Picture
• Maps Symbols
• Chat
• Widely used in C2
• Not Optimized for C2
• Users watching 5-13 chat windows

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Technology

• Integrated Chat and Geospatial Display
• User Defined Operational Picture (UDOP)
• Users get to pick what they want/need to see
• Geospatial Whiteboarding
• Users get to draw on their UDOP
• Natural Language Processing
• Identification of things of interest in C2 chat
• Highlights important stuff in chat and UDOP
• Can click on chat text to take you to important
  stuff

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Screen Shots
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Screen Shots
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C2 Enhanced Chat
Tabs contain multiple rooms
Color Indicates Room
List of questions to you. Typing a name as
first string indicates a request. In this
example Fire-1 is asking EOC-0 (the user) to
hook FIRE-2. Click on list item to respond.
Messages to user bolded.
Hyperlinks to objects in World Wind
List of questions youve asked of others.
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Technology Applications

• Command and Control Applications
• Military
• First Responders
• Spacecraft Mission Planning
• Scientific Studies
• Collaboration
• Augmented Cognition

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Commercial Applications/Opportunities

• CollabSpace
• 3D UDOP C2 Enhanced Chat Prototype
• C2 Enhanced Text Chat
• 2006 Study shows increased effectiveness in some
  C2 tasks
• Collaboration in C2 Research
• JHU/APL spends 1M in C2 Research

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FY08 Enhancements

• Web Based CollabSpace
• Easier Deployment
• Portal Integration - DecisionPoint
• 4-D UDOP
• 4th Dimension is Time
• Cross Domain Collaboration
• FY 2007 Work added some multi-level security
  enhancements that will be integrated into
  CollabSpace.

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Contact Information

• For technical information contact
• Nigel Tzeng, Inventor
• 443-778-1464
• nigel.tzeng_at_jhuapl.edu
• For licensing information contact
• Susan Furney, Technology Associate
• Office of Technology Transfer
• The Johns Hopkins University
• Applied Physics Laboratory
• 11100 Johns Hopkins Road
• Laurel, MD 20723
• 443-778-8122
• susan.furney_at_jhuapl.edu
• www.jhuapl.edu/ott