Design of interaction manager supporting collaborative display and multimodal interaction for advanced collaborative environment

As ubiquitous computing technologies are rapidly evolving in the area of collaboration, user interactions are also expanding to extremely various styles of embedded computing systems. In order to keep up with this, we propose a unique design of Interaction Manager (IM) for Smart Meeting Space (SMeet), which is our prototype system for Advanced Collaborative Environment (ACE), to support advanced user interactions. In this paper, IM provides generic interfaces and managing methods for heterogeneous interaction devices. Furthermore, these interaction activities can be effectively shared with remote-party collaborators by IM. The preliminary version of proposed IM is verified through experiments between two separately located SMeet nodes.