Abstract:
Collaborative virtual environments are becoming an
intrinsic part of professional practices. In addition to
providing collaboration support, they have the potential to
collect vast amounts of multimedia data about the actions
and content of such collaborative activities. The aim of
this research is to utilize this data effectively, extract
meaningful insights out of it and feed discovered
knowledge back into the environment. The paper presents
a framework for integrating multimedia data mining
techniques with collaborative virtual environments,
starting from early conceptual development. Discovered
patterns are deposited in an organisational memory, which
makes these available within the virtual environment.
Some of the ideas are illustrated by an example from the
application to collaborative spaces developed in LiveNet,
a virtual workspace design system.
