Design and implementation of a shared workspace by integrating individual workspaces

  • Authors:
  • M. Ohkubo;H. Ishii

  • Affiliations:
  • NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Take l-2356, Yokosuka-Shi, Kanagawa, 238-03 Japan;NTT Human Interface Laboratories, Take l-2356, Yokosuka-Shi, Kanagawa, 238-03 Japan

  • Venue:
  • COCS '90 Proceedings of the ACM SIGOIS and IEEE CS TC-OA conference on Office information systems
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

This paper proposes “TeamWorkStation” (TWS) as an approach to an effective shared workspace for the support of remote collaboration. There are three key design objectives in TWS: integration of virtual and actual workspaces, a simultaneously-accessible shared drawing surface, and smooth transition between individual workspaces and shared workspace. To achieve these objectives, images of computers and/or paper are overlaid so that information and images from both are effectively combined and distributed to the group members.