TY - GEN
T1 - A novel user interface for group collaboration
AU - Dorohonceanu, Bogdan
AU - Sletterink, Boi
AU - Marsic, Ivan
N1 - Funding Information:
We wish to thank to Dr. Attila Medl for his help with the multimodal interface design. Cristian Francu and Wen Li have contributed to the development of the current version of the communication infrastructure of DISCIPLE. The research reported here is supported by DARPA Contract No. N66001-96-C-8510, NSF STIMULATE Contract No. IRI-96-18854, and NSF KDI Contract No. IIS-98-72995 and by the Rutgers Center for Advanced Information Processing (CAIP).
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© 2000 IEEE
PY - 2000
Y1 - 2000
N2 - Flexible user interfaces that can be customized to meet the needs of the task at hand are particularly important for real-time group collaboration. This paper presents the user interface of the DISCIPLE (DIstributed System for Collaborative Information Processing and LEarning) system for synchronous groupware along with the multimodal human-computer interface enhancement. DISCIPLE supports sharing of JavaBeans-compliant components [17], i.e., beans and applets, which at run-time get imported into the shared workspace and can be interconnected into more complex components. As a result, importing various components allows user tailoring of the human-computer interface. We present a software architecture for customization of both group-level and application-level interfaces. The application-level interface includes a management system for sharing multiple modalities across concurrent applications. This multimodal management system is loadable on demand yet strongly embedded in the DISCIPLE framework to allow a pervasive multimodal user experience. This creates a very flexible user interface, enabling the users to tailor it to their specific needs. Finally, we report the informal laboratory experience with the framework tested on a variety of applications and discuss its limitations.
AB - Flexible user interfaces that can be customized to meet the needs of the task at hand are particularly important for real-time group collaboration. This paper presents the user interface of the DISCIPLE (DIstributed System for Collaborative Information Processing and LEarning) system for synchronous groupware along with the multimodal human-computer interface enhancement. DISCIPLE supports sharing of JavaBeans-compliant components [17], i.e., beans and applets, which at run-time get imported into the shared workspace and can be interconnected into more complex components. As a result, importing various components allows user tailoring of the human-computer interface. We present a software architecture for customization of both group-level and application-level interfaces. The application-level interface includes a management system for sharing multiple modalities across concurrent applications. This multimodal management system is loadable on demand yet strongly embedded in the DISCIPLE framework to allow a pervasive multimodal user experience. This creates a very flexible user interface, enabling the users to tailor it to their specific needs. Finally, we report the informal laboratory experience with the framework tested on a variety of applications and discuss its limitations.
KW - CSCW
KW - End user programming
KW - Groupware
KW - Multimodal user interfaces
KW - User interface design
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M3 - Conference contribution
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T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
BT - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2000
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2000
Y2 - 4 January 2000 through 7 January 2000
ER -