Coginfocom in collaborative virtual working environments

Abstract

Cognitive infocommunications (CogInfoCom) is one of the emerging areas of research. Future internet is in synergistic relationship with Coginfocom and covers areas like Internet of Things (IoT) and the three-dimensional internet (3D). Research in Virtual Reality Systems (VR) is in connection with these fields. The aim of this paper is the demonstration of personal working environments for people with special needs or disabilities. These people can be quite restricted in their mobility so it might be difficult to integrate them into everyday working environment. One of the state of art solutions for that problem is to create special 3D environments in which the physical surroundings of the subject is combined with representations of virtual reality. These tools can provide people with the ability to join in the workflow of a company by using special devices as collaboration tools in their work. The above mentioned tools can also be applied for the ergonomic testing and trying out of special office equipments for their needs in 3D Cave Automatic Virtual Environments (CAVE). In this paper the presentation of two different virtual working environments (rooms) in Virtual Collaboration Arena (VirCA) are described and demonstrated. For the modeling of these environments Trimble SketchUp 8 (3D modeling program) and Blender (3D computer graphics software) was used. VirCA is the tool for visualization of the virtual working environments.