The aim is to emulate features and advantages of multisensory human communication. The system so constituted provides a test bed for measuring benefits and synergies. With participation from cognitive science and human-factors engineering, a realistic application scenario is designed to evaluate combinations of modalities and to quantify performance. An initial experimental scenario is chosen to encompass ingredients of these collaborative tasks. The experimental scenario is based on the design, layout and equipment acquisition for a digital signal processor laboratory.
Subjects are sets of three collaborators who are to share and work in the facility.
An additional impact of the research is the graduate training of four Ph.D. candidates in this newly-emerging field.