Blended Whiteboard

Jens Emil Grønbæk*, Juan Sánchez Esquivel*, Germán Leiva, Eduardo Velloso, Hans Gellersen, Ken Pfeuffer

Abstract

To preserve its physicality in remote collaboration, Mixed Reality can blend real whiteboards across distributed spaces. Going beyond reality, MR can further enable interactions like panning and zooming in a virtually reconfigurable infinite whiteboard. However, this reconfigurability conflicts with the sense of physicality. To address this tension, we introduce Blended Whiteboard, a remote collaborative MR system enabling reconfigurable surface blending across distributed physical whiteboards. Blended Whiteboard supports a unique collaboration style, where users can sketch on their local whiteboards and reconfigure the blended space to facilitate transitions between loosely and tightly coupled work.