Chapter 5 - Conclusions

5.1 Overview

We have examined various application domains, evaluated many of the existing multi-user systems, and developed a prototype to explore the integration of communication control methods into GreenSpace.

Through this research we have determined an intuitive and efficient approach for facilitating scalable interpersonal communication within the GreenSpace system. Variations of the spatial culling approach have been widely used in other systems for a variety of applications and have been shown to be adaptable to the GreenSpace software environment through an exploratory prototype.

5.2 Future Work

The ideal size for communication cells within various application domains should be experimentally determined.

A full implementation of the COMIC spatial model, coupled with the spatial partioning and assignment of multicast groups within GreenSpace would be a useful addition for many applications.