Category: AuthoringSystem
Organization: NEC Corp., Tokyo, Japan
Journal: NEC Research and Development
Abstract: The authors describe an in-house computer-supported
        desk-to-desk conference system which allows a group
        of users to conduct a meeting in real-time from
        their telephone-attached personal computers.
        Conferees can jointly view and edit relevant
        multimedia information, including text, graphics,
        images, and handwritten information distributed
        through a local area network. Participants can also
        communicate simultaneously by voice to discuss the
        information they are sharing. The following is a
        discussion of the system's design principle, i.e.,
        the group communication architecture and a protocol
        overview for conference coordination. The system
        configuration, service functions, and related
        control mechanisms are also presented. User
        experiences and the results of feasibility
        evaluations are also discussed. This system has
        proved to be applicable to a wide variety of
        cooperative work, such as distributed software
        development, joint authoring, and group decision
        support
Number: 98
Bibtype: Article
Author: S. Sakata
        T. Ueda
Pages: 107-17
Month: jul
Title: Development and evaluation of an in-house multimedia
        desktop conference systems
Year: 1990
Keyword: data communication systems, local area networks,
        microcomputer applications, protocols, real-time
        systems, teleconferencing, text editing, visual
        communication, voice communication, LAN, IIA/ICA,
        in-house multimedia desktop conference systems,
        telephone-attached personal computers, local area
        network, group communication architecture, protocol,
        conference coordination, distributed software
        development, joint authoring, group decision support