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Foil 35 Levels of Collaborative Services

From The Information Highway amd Multimedia Information Resources for Goethe Institut Goethe Institut Annual Meeting -- 22 May 1996. by Geoffrey Fox * See also color IMAGE
We have Postal Services, electronic mail/newsgroups/listservs which generalize to web linked database supported mail archives with suitable JavaScript framework
We have Phone which generalizes to Chat Servers and Forums where "mail" (lines of chat) are in real time but logically equivalent to mail services
Video Conferencing/Face to Face Meetings map into a set of interactive tools
  • Shared White Board
  • Shared Multimedia Information
  • Talking Heads
These need digital video, Java Servers and clients etc.
  • Unclear performance and utility -- systems being deployed now
Can have intutitive metaphors e.g. separate rooms in a Java Applet
or the full (soon to be VRML 2.0) Televirtual Environment as provided by several experimental servers with many users in a realistic simulated world
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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