Full HTML for Basic User View of Tango Features with tutorial

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Basic foilset User View of Tango Features with tutorial

Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Tango Tutorial at SC98 Orlando on November 8 98. Foils prepared November 18 98
Outside Index Summary of Material

Pictorial Overview of Tango highlighting applications and features

Basic Tango Tutorial for Users

Set up for slide show use

Missing WebWisdom and Shared Browser

Customized for SC98 Education Technology Session organized by Raul Zaritsky

Table of Contents for full HTML of User View of Tango Features with tutorial

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Multi-Lingual Collaborative Dance
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Tango and WebWisdom Training SC98 Orlando November 8 1998
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What can we discuss in a Nutshell I?
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What can we discuss in a Nutshell II?
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What can we discuss in a Nutshell III?
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What can we discuss in a Nutshell IV?
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New Capabilities we could do .....
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Tango Interactive Web Collaboratory Share Any Application around the world PC and UNIX Platforms
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Distance Learning
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Electronic Communities
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Crisis Management
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Play Games
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TangoInteractive is Sharing Your Web application
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Getting Started with Tango I
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Getting Started with Tango II
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An Example of Tango Java Server, Web Servers and Clients Architecture of JSU Distance Education
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Some Details on Tango Architecture
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Architecture of Tango
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Multi-Lingual Collaborative Dance
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TangoInteractive is Just One Click -- Integrated into Web Browser
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Getting Started with Tango III
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Download the Java Controls Login into the Java Server
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Click the Chat Icon to start a Session
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Starting or Joining a Session
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A Session is An Application and a Group of Users You can join a session
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TangoInteractive can share Client Java Applets JavaScript Java Applications C++ Server Simulations Web-linked Databases CORBA Lotus Notes ....
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What does Sharing Mean in Tango?
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Two Shared Physics Simulations and audio video conferencing
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Foil 1 Multi-Lingual Collaborative Dance

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Web Pages

Java

C++

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Foil 2 Tango and WebWisdom Training SC98 Orlando November 8 1998

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Tango Team

NPAC

Syracuse University

111 College Place

Syracuse NY 13244-4100

tango@npac.syr.edu

http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango

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Foil 3 What can we discuss in a Nutshell I?

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Tango Collaboration System applicable to education and training and ......

Initial demonstrations of use of Tango in education and training using

WebWisdom 1.0 Perl/JavaScript System
Shared Browser

Tango reasonably robust and has API to most server/client applications -- will hopefully link to Internet Explorer/Macintosh's soon

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Foil 4 What can we discuss in a Nutshell II?

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Buena Vista Multiplatform (UNIX/PC) Audio/Video Conferencing

Java video and audio players for low bit rate codecs which allows (shared) viewing of multimedia curricula

LecCorder system as turnkey video of presentaion -->MPEG-->H263-->Weblinked foils

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Foil 5 What can we discuss in a Nutshell III?

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WebWisdomNT 2.0 replacing WebWisdom 1.0 (eventually) with

Database storage of HTML PowerPoint Multimedia data .....
Java Manager of Courses Users Events Images etc.
Excellent web-linked database interface using XML templates
Export to file systems

Prototype works and can be demonstrated

Needs much more testing and Integration with Tango -- will import existing 26,000 foils and 1,500 family photographs

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Foil 6 What can we discuss in a Nutshell IV?

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NPAC Grading System which is Oracle (or other database -- currently using MSQL) with Java Servlets to support handling of a class with PAPI type

Student Data
Grades and Statistics
Surveys

Online programming labs for

PERL and Java (natural)
HPF and MPI (not so trivial)

MPI lab used by JSU in this semester

Cornell's Companion sophisticated extension of this with security

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Foil 7 New Capabilities we could do .....

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Macintosh and Internet Explorer implementations

Take specialized resources such as NCSA Biology workbench and make collaborative

Several ways -- one way is a few days work building shared HTML forms

Shared Macromedia director presentations

Further shared educational applets as in physics examples

Shared learning environments such as Belvedere with multiple linked client side applications

Shared Geographical Information Systems

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Foil 8 Tango Interactive Web Collaboratory Share Any Application around the world PC and UNIX Platforms

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Distance Learning

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Electronic Communities

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CRISIS MANAGEMENT

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Foil 12 Play Games

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PLAY GAMES

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Foil 13 TangoInteractive is Sharing Your Web application

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Your Web

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Foil 14 Getting Started with Tango I

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Using Tango is just a mouse click to download an applet as long as certain preparations have been made

Tango involves a bunch of collaborating machines (called clients) which are linked together by a Java Tango server. There are default Tango servers which can always be chosen but specialized Tango applications often use their own server.

A Tango client fetches programs from a Web Server NOT from the Java Server

server

Client

Web Server

Client

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Foil 15 Getting Started with Tango II

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After understanding which Server you will use, Tango must be installed on your machine. This involves installing a Netscape plug-in and also a C++ audio-video conferencing system Buena Vista

Then each time you wish to load Tango, one must download the "control application" (CA)which is a Java Applet.

This involves selecting a particular Web Server and clients setup with different Web Servers can collaborate using the same Java Server
Each downloaded client has a (possibly different) configuration file specifying where each Tango application is to be loaded from. This allows one to use mirror sites to improve performance
In simplest case, everybody chooses the same Web Server

Collaboration involves two or more clients sharing information and this covers both the teacher-students interaction in education; commander-firefighters interaction in a crisis; and the linkage of researchers in a distributed scientific collaboratory.

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Foil 16 An Example of Tango Java Server, Web Servers and Clients Architecture of JSU Distance Education

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Foil 17 Some Details on Tango Architecture

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The previous page shows the architecture of our distance education project where we taught CSC499 from Syracuse University to Jackson State fall 97 and spring 98. Note the mirrored Web servers (one at Syracuse and one at JSU) but single Java Server

Note The Java Server does not receive or dispense a large amount of data. For basic curricula it just transmits a URL string (a few bytes) while for audio-video conferencing data, the server establishes the session but the multimedia data is transmitted on separate channels.
The server is very robust and can handle many users

The next page shows the

Tango daemon downloaded in the plug-in
The Control Applet downloaded from a Web Server
The Java Server -- a Java application running on NT or UNIX -- which must be instantiated ahead of time
shared applications can be C++, JavaScript or Java (applet or application)

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Foil 18 Architecture of Tango

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Java Tango

Server

Netscape Browser

Tango

Daemon

Shared Applet 1

Shared Applet 2

Shared

Java/C++/..

Application

Socket Connections

Client Side Bus

Netscape's

LiveConnect

Typical Client

Other

Collaborating

Clients

Shared

JavaScript/ Web Page

Tango CA

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Foil 19 Multi-Lingual Collaborative Dance

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Foil 20 TangoInteractive is Just One Click -- Integrated into Web Browser

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Tango Interactive is Integrated into Web Browser

Start with One Click

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Foil 21 Getting Started with Tango III

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After requesting a Tango download of control applet, one may get a security dialog (grant permission to download and remember decision), and first one is asked (as on previous page) to choose a server

Servers are available for distribution but typically start with default one
one also asked to choose a "control interface" which just correspond to different selections of applications to share

After a while, if all goes well, one gets the request to "login" which currently just requires that you type in a unique "handle" by which you are known in the collaboration room.

In Tango1, each server supports a single room but we will see that although all users are potential participants in a shared application, one can set up complex relationships as any given session can involve a different subset of users.
Currently Tango has no security mechanisms in the login process although one has some control over allowed actions in a given shared application.

Note we define a session as an instance of an application shared by a set of users. One can have any number of sessions based on a given application which separate instantiations of the application and different subsets of users. As we will see users decide who joins a given session.

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Foil 22 Download the Java Controls Login into the Java Server

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Foil 23 Click the Chat Icon to start a Session

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Foil 24 Starting or Joining a Session

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Sessions can either be started or joined

Sessions can be joined either because the master adds a user or because a user requests it.

Sessions are started from the icons under the tags in the middle of the CA's user interface

Suppose the teacher has started a chat or other session. Then it appears on the list of sessions at the bottom middle section for ALL clients. Highlighting it, one see that join is an option (shown in left bottom panel)

Click the join button and you become part of this session

The chat applet is downloaded to client that joined. Highlighting chat now shows this client as a participant.

For chat, this happens almost instantaneously. For more complex applications, the registration process takes longer as Tango only accepts a joined client when The Java applet is properly loaded

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Foil 25 A Session is An Application and a Group of Users You can join a session

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Foil 26 TangoInteractive can share Client Java Applets JavaScript Java Applications C++ Server Simulations Web-linked Databases CORBA Lotus Notes ....

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Foil 27 What does Sharing Mean in Tango?

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For a chat, sharing is clear -- one shares the text typed in by the different users.

Now start and share in the same way, one or more of the simple physics applets -- spring or cross-product.

The teacher (deemed the master if he or she started it) can move the Position of the spring and the Force and Energy change in response.

All applets in the same session follow the behavior of the master
Maybe your spring does not follow? Did you join this session or another one? Perhaps you started a new session by clicking on spring icon rather than by highlighting spring session and clicking on join!
Note that "slaves" cannot move spring position -- they are meant to gaze in wonder and growing understanding as teacher moves spring and uses video conferencing to wax eloquent about the physical principles

In spring case, Tango shares state defining applet -- here the position of the Spring.

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Foil 28 Two Shared Physics Simulations and audio video conferencing

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Foil 29 More on Sharing in Tango

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Tango can share any client or server application whose state can be determined and set. Tango finds the state from the master and transmits it to the slave clients

For efficiency, Tango usually transmits "the change in state" and not state itself -- for spring it is as easy to transmit absolute state x as change dx in state. For chat, change in state (latest text typed) is natural.
For server applications, one finds and sets state through web interface which can be URL (perhaps with CGI extension) or even CORBA interface to a distributed object.

Porting an application to Tango, requires sending messages from master with state (change) and receiving them on slave. Hardest perhaps is knowing what the state is!

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Foil 30 Multi-Lingual Collaborative Dance

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Foil 31 Either Join or Master Remote Opens

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Foil 32 Join or Remote Open Possible

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We showed how users could be added to sessions by clients joining a session initiated by the master.

Alternatively, one can use a remote open command shown on previous and next two pages

This is appropriate when one is sure that a group of users need to participate. This is typically the case in a distance education class when students have logged into Tango and teacher wishes to launch a shared application (e.g. the cross-product applet) on all student machines.

When teacher highlights the cross-product session (and no other users have joined), he or she is offered the allowed choices:

local close which will terminate session or
remote open which can spread session to any of the other users

The dialog box that jumps up allows one either to select specific users or all -- the latter is a good option for education when one typically wants all students involved.

We will see later how the configuration tab, allows clients to prevent unwanted remote opens cluttering their windows

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Foil 33 Use Remote Open to add other Users

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Foil 34 Select the Users for Remote Open

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Foil 35 TangoInteractive is Sharing Your Web application

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Foil 36 Changing the Master Status

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The master status can be changed at the request of either master or slave

Highlight the session as usual and the
master is allowed to grant master or
any slave is allowed to become master

As in remote open, configuration tab, allows one to control unwanted transfer of master status

As an example, one could use this in education to allow student to control the spring applet and demonstrate that they understood basic ideas.

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Foil 37 You can Transfer Master Status

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Foil 38 TangoInteractive can share Client Java Applets JavaScript Java Applications C++ Server Simulations Web-linked Databases CORBA Lotus Notes ....

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Foil 39 Microsoft's NetMeeting runs under Tango -- It has a more limited sharing Model - Master

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Foil 40 Tango supports Microsoft NetMeeting

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Microsoft currently supplies NetMeeting for Windows 95/98/NT

This supports a different model for sharing

When you share Word for example, there is only one copy of application running on the master
In Tango classic shared event model, the application (e.g. spring applet) runs separately on each machine

At its simplest, NetMeeting shares the "display" (frame buffer produced by application)

This explains curious hatched area on following page. This corresponds to part of Word window that is obscured on the master but not on the slave.

NetMeeting captures mouse and keyboard actions in the shared window and treats these as shared events

This allows shared editing with a difficult master-slave model

This is an example of Tango interfacing to a C++ client application -- Microsoft's NetMeeting

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Foil 41 Microsoft's NetMeeting runs under Tango -- It has a more limited sharing Model - Slave

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Foil 43 Control Applet has Administrative Tab with users and details about them

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Foil 44 Users Information in Tango

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There are other capabilities of Control Application with users, mailbox, configuration and help tabs

The users tab can tell you more about all the users who are logged into the Tango Server

Their handle (login name), name of their client machine, status message, and time they last changed status

Each user is responsible for setting status message

On next page, we show the result of double clicking on a given user.

Up pops more information!

You can ping the user -- send a message to see the user machine is still alive.

If the ping works, try a hail which tries the wake the user up so he or she can collaborate with you.

Use a chat window to have a more detailed dialog with a hailed user

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Foil 45 Wake Up a User! Find their sessions and work status

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Foil 46 TangoInteractive is Sharing Your Web application

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Foil 47 Set Your Preferences in Configuration Tab

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Foil 48 The Configuration Tab

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Clicking the configuration tab, we can inspect some useful system parameters

The Tango Console should be left unchecked by most users -- default
Voice messages are defaulted to on but this is pretty silly -- turn them off -- as generally they are just a distraction

One can define the processing of remote requests -- change master status and remote open/close

always approved is default but you can choose always disapprove or that a confirmation box be displayed at each such request

On the right, one has a configuration file window which is only useful if there is a problem -- it will tell you where the information for each application is stored.

Maybe some wizard can use this to a debug a problem

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Foil 49 Use Java Console from Netscape to Debug

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Foil 50 Don't forget the Java Console!

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Although the Tango Console is not so useful, one can usefully invoke the Java Console from the communicator menu at the top of the Netscape window

The Java Console can tell you if Netscape or Tango has made a mistake

Even if you can't interpret it, copy and paste the console into your bug reports so the Tango team can diagnose problems

Note you can start the Console at any time and still see past information and so you can wait till a problem develops

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Foil 51 Multi-Lingual Collaborative Dance

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Foil 52 Tango has many Applications

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Tango has lots of applications ranging from the serious to the frivolous; from the essentially bug-free to cases which are only illustrative due to implementation problems.

Tango has a well defined API which allows diverse applications to be ported to it.

For instance, the current release of Tango sports three versions of chat.

Each of these can be invoked any number of times.
They have different tradeoffs from the serious dull text only version to the cool 2.5D graphical version which is cool (to a K-12 audience) but perhaps not the most efficient (to our busy executive)

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Foil 53 TangoInteractive is a flexible framework -- 4 chats

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Foil 54 Multimedia Applications

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Tango has several multimedia applications

We have already seen the digital audio-video conferencing system Buena Vista
However we can also share audio and video files

The multimedia applications only use the Tango Server for control information. The high volume data is sent by separate channels outside the Tango Server

This ensures that the Tango server is highly robust and scales well as number of users increases.

The deployed version of Tango shares audio and video files using Java applets to decode multimedia data on the client (Video is low bandwidth H263)

Inside NPAC, we support a high end version with both MPEG and H263 codecs

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Foil 55 Download The Built in Digital Audio Video with Tango Client

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Shared Streaming Video

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Foil 56 Tango Interactive Web Collaboratory Share Any Application around the world PC and UNIX Platforms

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Foil 57 Tango Offers Two White Boards

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Foil 58 There are many Whiteboards

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Tango offers two basic whiteboards

One has a simple intuitive interface but is not so powerful
The other is much powerful but is harder to use
This sophisticated whiteboard is also used as part of the WebWisdom shared curricula tool as one optional display mode

The variety of such tools is a key advantage of a framework like Tango -- you can adopt it for your particular application and expect that the open API will allow a variety of basic tools such as whiteboards and chats to be developed to support your application

You are not locked into a particular generic support tool

Another whiteboard is used in the popular mapper shared application where one has maps displayed on the whiteboard

Pan through the maps with interface at top left
Add shared icons, text and freehand drawing

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Foil 59 A Shared Java Mapper used in Crisis Management

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Foil 60 You Choose what to share in Tango

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These whiteboards illustrate your freedom in defining shared events in Tango

For each of the three examples just discussed (basic whiteboards and mapper), all users in the session can freely modify the whiteboard

For the mapper for instance anybody can add icons (and everybody sees them) and anybody can change the viewpoint (controlled by graph on top left)

We could have made a different choice, with for instance only the master able to set the viewpoint.

Each event can be treated differently -- all could set icons with master only setting viewpoint and text
these choices can also be dynamically changed

This illustrates power of shared event model as one can choose which events to share and change this at any time

It is all "just software"!

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Foil 61 TangoInteractive is Sharing Your Web application

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Foil 62 Games are Natural in Tango Othello and the Magic Cube

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Foil 63 More Applications: Games and Physics

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So games are a natural applications of collaborative system

Othello is an interesting and serious 2 player game where you can also play as an individual against the computer
The magic cube can use use the the ability of transferring master status to allow a slave(observer) take control and solve the puzzle started by the original master

We showed two simple physics applications but we also have more sophisticated shared applets illustrating planetary motion and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

CFD just shares data and display options and solves the equations (written in Java) fully on each machine
Planetary motion will start and stop the planets motion and then resume the simulation

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Foil 64 Shared Simulations -- Fluid Flow and Planetary Motion

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Foil 65 TangoInteractive could/can share Client Java Applets JavaScript Java Applications C++ Server Simulations Web-linked Databases CORBA Lotus Notes ....

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