CAIRO: a concurrent engineering meeting environment for virtual design teams |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Room 1-253, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;2. Riskclick.com, New York, NY 10016, USA;3. Intelligent Engineering Systems Laboratory, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;4. Oracle Exchange, Oracle Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA 94065, USA;1. Departamento de Física, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), UNESP, Rua Cristovão Colombo 2265, CEP 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil;2. Centro Multiusuário de Inovação Biomolecular (CMIB), Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas (IBILCE), UNESP, Rua Cristovão Colombo 2265, CEP 15054-000 São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil;3. Laboratório de Tecnologia Famacêutica (LTF), UFPB, Cidade Universitária, CEP 58051-900 João Pessoa, PB, Brazil;1. The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan;2. Department of Biological Chemistry and Food Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, Iwate University, Morioka, Iwate, Japan;1. Department of Informatics, University of Milano-Bicocca, Viale Sarca 336, 20126 Milano, Italy;2. Faculty of Design and ArtFree University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Università 1, 39100 Bolzano, Italy;3. IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Via Galeazzi, 4, 20161 Milano, Italy;1. Section of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas;2. Basic Sciences Perinatology Research Laboratories, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas;3. Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas;1. College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Hunan University, China;2. College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, China |
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| Abstract: | This paper presents the software architecture for a next generation concurrent engineering environment that helps geographically separated designers and engineers to collaborate effectively. The paper highlights research in computer-supported collaboration work (CSCW) based on various models of group interaction, social communication theory, negotiation theory and distributed artificial intelligence concepts. The paper describes CAIRO (Collaborative Agent Interaction and synchROnization) system, a distributed conferencing architecture for managing designers and engineers in a distributed design meeting. The CAIRO system allows designers and engineers to work together in virtual teams by supporting multi-media interactions over computer networks. CAIRO aids the concurrent engineering effort by relaxing the physical, temporal and organizational constraints experienced in traditional design meeting environments. CAIRO provides both media synchronization, i.e. ensuring that all information exchanged between users is synchronized, and agent synchronization, i.e. ensuring effective structuring and control of a distributed conference. This paper also details the prototype CAIRO system with a detailed example, illustrating its use in concurrent design settings. |
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