Abstract
Recent advances in information and communication technologies that support the concept of collaborative networks have allowed manufacturing enterprises to use remotely controlled decentralized manufacturing processes. This survey is based on the experiment that involved 34 small collaborative groups at Serbia, that have used the interface for remote collaborative control of manufacturing systems to control of CNC machine located in Portugal. The experiments on collaborative environment are done using two types of “client” user interface, “Wall” and “Window”. Measured characteristics included: collaborative effort, involvement, awareness, representational fidelity features and co-presence. Results show that “Wall” interface has higher values of index of interdependence of collaborative virtual environment characteristics. Conclusion is that characteristics of collaborative environment are less interdependent when “Window” is used opposite to the “Wall” interface. Future research ideas are to test similar platforms with more users and to study aspects such as group leader choice and role, possible conflicts etc.
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Abbreviations
- COE:
-
Collaborative effort to complete the task,
- INV:
-
Involvement in communication and the experimental task,
- ACT:
-
Being active participant in the task,
- SAT:
-
Satisfaction with task,
- AWP:
-
Awareness of the existence of other participants,
- AWO:
-
Awareness of other participants actions,
- CPL:
-
Co-presence in laboratory in Portugal,
- CPM:
-
Co-presence of nearness of the machine
- RDE:
-
Realistic display of the environment,
- SDM:
-
Consistency of object motion,
- COB:
-
Consistency of object behavior,
- URE:
-
User representation,
- WA:
-
“Wall” interface,
- WI:
-
“Window” interface,
- D:
-
Desktop screen,
- V:
-
Video beam presentation,
- Kolm:
-
Results for Kolmogorov normality test,
- p-val.:
-
P-value of test.
- par. type:
-
Type of parameter Normal of Non-normal distribution i.e. parametric or nonparametric tests,
- Cm i :
-
Individual index of interdependence and
- Cm :
-
Overall index of interdependence
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This work is supported by grants for bilateral cooperation project “Design and Evaluation of User Interfaces for Remote Collaborative Control of Manufacturing Systems” between Serbia and Portugal, financed by Serban Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Developement (MESTD) and Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), respectively and grant SPRINCE - SAF€RA by MESTD.
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Brkic, V.S., Putnik, G., Veljković, Z.A., Shah, V., Essdai, A. (2017). Interfaces for Distributed Remote User Controlled Manufacturing as Collaborative Environment. In: Nunes, I. (eds) Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 497. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_30
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