An I-Room is a meeting space for collaboration and can be provided in virtual worlds such as Second Life and OpenSim. It is designed for brain storming style meetings and as an operations centre. I-Rooms are used in the I-X/I-Room research on intelligent collaborative and task support environments at AIAI, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh.

I-Room Video Tour

Visit an I-Room now in Second Life [if you do not yet have a Second Life avatar Join here]:

VW Platform	Location	URL	Launcher
Second Life	OpenVCE 3D Space - Round table for up to 25 people	http://slurl.com/secondlife/Vue/144/168/25/

Watch videos of an I-Room in use:

• I-Room Introduction and Tour
• Meeting support to a distributed team developing a multi-media product
• Professional tutoring for Scotch whisky making and tasting

The building is freely available via the Vue region in Second Life and in Opensim. See http://openvce.net/downloads

Example I-Rooms for Training, Simulation and Tutorials

• EADS Astrium (Airbus) Homeland Security and Non-combatant Evacuation Scenarios - http://vue.ed.ac.uk/associates/eads/
• Whole of Society Crisis Response Community exercises e.g. with USJFCOM, Army Research Labs, Virginia State, Hampton City and others - http://openvce.net/event-woscr-vcee-2
• Slam Games - multi-media product design I-Room - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFvVvqNtuJc
• Virtual World of Whisky - mixed-initiative tutorial I-Room - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22pDiEdG7Vw

I-Rooms are available in Second Life and Opensim. An I-Room provides a two storey building with central area and four work zones, designed for collaborative and brain storming style meetings. An I-Room can be used an a rapidly deployed operations center for example. Plenty of wall space is available for displays and gadgets. Each of the four corners can easily be converted to a small two storey block, or a larger double height block. The I-Room style buildings are used in the I-X/I-Room research on intelligent collaborative and task support environments at AIAI, The University of Edinburgh.

Potential Applications:

• Virtual collaboration center
• Business teleconferencing
• Team Meetings for projects, products or reviews
• Product Help Desks
• Design to Product - product lifecycle workflow support
• Environmental, building and plant monitoring center
• Health and safety at work, disability awareness
• Intelligent tutors, guides and greeters
• Active demonstration pavilions

Papers:

• Tate, A., Potter, S. and Dalton, J. (2009), I-Room: a Virtual Space for Emergency Response for the Multinational Planning Augmentation Team, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Systems for Coalition Operations (KSCO-2009) (Lawton, J., Patel, J. and Tate. A. eds.), Chilworth Manor, Southampton, UK, 31 March-1 April 2009. [PDF Document]
• Tate, A., Chen-Burger, Y-H., Dalton, J., Potter, S., Richardson, D., Stader, J., Wickler, G., Bankier, I., Walton, C. and William, P.G. (2010) I-Room: A Virtual Space for Intelligent Interaction, IEEE Intelligent Systems, July-August 2010, Vol. 25, No. 4, pp 62-71. IEEE Computer Society. [PDF Document]

• Some of the commands for the I-X helper agent running within the "Polycom Phone" in the I-Room are listed at http://openvce.net/iroom-helper
• The I-Room won a prize as an entry in the Federal Virtual Worlds Challenge 2009-2010. See http://openvce.net/fvwc-2009-iroom