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Foil 82 Collaboratory systems: Taxonomy III

From General NPAC Foils-B starting June97(PowerPoint) Beijing and Chang Sha China -- 28 Dec 97 to 5 Jan 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 Evolution of chat servers in a collaboratory
  • Chat servers multiply and offer 1D, 2D and even 3D interfaces:
    • Comic Chat (MS - 2D), Passport (BlackSun - 3D), Traveler (OnLive - 3D), The Palace (2D), MOO's .........
  • While technically similar, these products are geared towards creation of sophisticated and unproven rather than towards increasing functionality of a collaboratory
    • Collaboratory paradigm easily breaks when combined with orthodox cyberspace visualization paradigm
      • two avatars reading a Word document on a screen of the virtual computer rendered in VRML browser???
    • Conclusion: evolving chat servers are not key today to a collaboratory!
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