Understanding and constructing shared spaces with mixed-reality boundaries

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Steve Benford

The Univ. of Nottingham

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Chris Greenhalgh

The Univ. of Nottingham

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Gail Reynard

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Chris Brown

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Boriana Koleva

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ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Volume 5 Issue 3pp 185–223https://doi.org/10.1145/292834.292836

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We propose an approach to creating shared mixed realities based on the construction of transparent boundaries between real and virtual spaces. First, we introduce a taxonomy that classifies current approaches to shared spaces according to the three dimensions of transportation, artificiality, and spatiality. Second, we discuss our experience of staging a poetry performance simultaneously within real and virtual theaters. This demonstrates the complexities involved in establishing social interaction between real and virtual spaces and motivates the development of a systematic approach to mixing realities. Third, we introduce and demonstrate the technique of mixed-reality boundaries as a way of joining real and virtual spaces together in order to address some of these problems.

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