Experience with the virtual notebook system: abstraction in hypertext

  • Authors:
  • Jerry Fowler;Donald G. Baker;Ross Dargahi;Vram Kouramajian;Hillary Gilson;Kevin Brook Long;Cynthia Petermann;G. Anthony Gorry

  • Affiliations:
  • Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Informatics and Computing Research Program, 3730 Kirby Drive, Suite 1165 Houston, Texas and Rice University, Information Technology Development, 4200 Shepherd D ...;Rice University, Information Technology Development, 4200 Shepherd Drive, Suite 250, Houston, Texas;Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Informatics and Computing Research Program, 3730 Kirby Drive, Suite 1165 Houston, Texas;Rice University, Information Technology Development, 4200 Shepherd Drive, Suite 250, Houston, Texas;Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Informatics and Computing Research Program, 3730 Kirby Drive, Suite 1165 Houston, Texas;Rice University, Information Technology Development, 4200 Shepherd Drive, Suite 250, Houston, Texas;Baylor College of Medicine, Medical Informatics and Computing Research Program, 3730 Kirby Drive, Suite 1165 Houston, Texas;Rice University, Information Technology Development, 4200 Shepherd Drive, Suite 250, Houston, Texas

  • Venue:
  • CSCW '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The Virtual Notebook System (VNS) is a distributed collaborative hypertext system that has made a successful transition from research prototype to commercial product. Experience in developing and deploying the VNS in diverse settings including biomedical research, undergraduate education, and collaborative system prototyping has developed insight into the use of systems for computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW). This paper provides a brief overview of the VNS, discusses some of its strengths and weaknesses with respect to collaboration, and draws some conclusions about the impact of metaphor and extensibility on the collaborative process.