Designing Groupware for Real-Time Drawing
Published on 1. August 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-0-07-707899-7 (ISBN)
Description
While basic groupware packages are already available co-operative working still has a long way to go. Drawing packages, especially those for designers and engineers are examples of software which is suited to team working. This book looks at all the possibilities for the design of such systems and which features will allow them to work successfully. The book considers design from the point of view of human computer interaction; this can be important for the development of groupworking systems. It provides a run down of suitable available toolkits.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
58ill.
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
320 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-707899-7 (9780077078997)
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Content
Part 1 Designing a collaborative workspace: introduction; designing at a distance - experiments in remote-synchronous design; design principles for sharing in Tivoli, a whiteboard meeting-support tool; human and technical factors of distributed group drawing tools; gesturing through cursors - implementing multiple pointers in group support systems; using a shared pen-based tool for meeting support; integration of interpersonal space and shared workspace - clear-board design and experiments. Part 2 Systems, architectures and toolkits for groupware: introduction; WSCRAWL 2.0 - a shared whiteboard based on X-Windows; GroupKit - a groupware toolkit for building real time conferencing applications; SLICE - a logical model for shared editors.