Strudel—an extensible electronic conversation toolkit

  • Authors:
  • Allan Shepherd;Niels Mayer;Allan Kuchinsky

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, California;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, California;Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Palo Alto, California

  • Venue:
  • CSCW '90 Proceedings of the 1990 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
  • Year:
  • 1990

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Abstract

This paper describes the conceptual model of Strudel, a toolkit of generic components for conversation and action management. To empower work groups to more effectively conduct their computer-based communication, coordination, and information sharing activities, Strudel packages within a simple model of task and action the semi-structured message, active message and conversation management paradigms. To facilitate acceptance and use within varying work cultures, we define this model in terms of a set of extensible components, which are implemented as a prototype software toolkit that is efficient, portable, customizable, and extensible. Issues considered briefly in this paper include threading in conversations that are converging or multi-party, and interoperability between active message systems.