We describe a new paradigm in which synchronous and asynchronous collaborative communication using a 3D model is realized for knowledge management in an industrial manufacturing process, such as design or troubleshooting, at a worldwide automotive company with many branch offices. Our module for establishing the shared state of 3D objects, which supports the LivingWorlds specification, will be integrated with a VRML browser plugged into a Web browser, a Web server, and a communication middleware system, as a 3D Web Environment system for knowledge management. Users will be able to record the minutes of their online meetings using 3D models, which may include text annotations or additional object behaviors, and will be able to store them systematically in a database with related documents and images, and retrieve them later to prepare for another meeting or to find out the details of a meeting that they did not attend in real-time. In this report, we discuss the direction of our work and the concept underlying the 3D Web Environment system design.
By: R.Yoshida, T.Murao, and T.Miyazawa
Published in: RT0296 in 2002
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