A system for supporting and managing same-time/different-place group interactions

Pedro A. Antunes
1998 Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces - AVI '98  
This paper describes a user-interface system developed to support group interactions for same-time/different-place cooperative applications. We address three fundamental aspects of these kind of systems: information sharing, coordination and multiuser-interface. The proposed approach defines four types of objects. Contents store application data. Containers are dedicated to organise and structure application data. Connections manage group coordination. And, finally, Monitors are concerned with
more » ... sers awareness of cooperative activities. One important characteristic of the approach is that it identifies and maps into the above objects two basic properties of group interaction support: visibility (public/private information) and durability (durable/transient information). The system eases the design of complex group interaction processes because it defines simple actions that allow programmers and users to define and combine object properties. An example of system usage is given for an application that supports brainstorming activities.
doi:10.1145/948496.948526 dblp:conf/avi/Antunes98 fatcat:lr2dhc3jvjertgvrbivj3jhrkq