The "mighty mouse" multi-screen collaboration tool

  • Authors:
  • Kellogg S. Booth;Brian D. Fisher;Chi Jui Raymond Lin;Ritchie Argue

  • Affiliations:
  • University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada;University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada;University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada;University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Many computer operating systems provide seamless support for multiple display screens, but there are few cross-platform tools for collaborative use of multiple computers in a shared display environment. Mighty Mouse is a novel groupware tool built on the public domain VNC protocol. It is tailored specifically for face-to-face collaboration where multiple heterogeneous computers (usually laptops) are viewed simultaneously (usually via projectors) by people working together on a variety of applications under various operating systems. Mighty Mouse uses only the remote input capability of VNC, but enhances this with various features to support flexible movement between the various platforms, "floor control" to facilitate smooth collaboration, and customization features to accommodate different user, platform, and application preferences in a relatively seamless manner. The design rationale arises from specific observations about how people collaborate in meetings, which allows certain simplifying assumptions to be made in the implementation.