sTeam3D: bringing together virtual communities and CSCW

Authors:
Stefan Mischke;Frank Goetz;Robert Hinn;Thorsten Hampel
Affiliations:
University of Paderborn;University of Paderborn;University of Paderborn;University of Paderborn
Venue:
Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on 3D web technology
Year:
2007

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Abstract

Today CSCW systems are used in various scientific, economic, and industrial areas. The logical next step is that collaborators not only want to work together by sharing documents or by communicating via mail or chat. Rather it would be more interesting to meet colleagues, business partners, and customers in a virtual world, e.g. to discuss design and look of various products or concepts in 3D space and in real-time. Thereby, it is important that the whole cooperative functionality remains available. Most developments that bring a virtual community to the computer desktop are proprietary solutions that only partially contain CSCW features. In order to solve this problem and to provide a satisfying and functional virtual environment our aim was the development of an X3D-based Web3D client for a sophisticated CSCW system. As a server system we chose sTeam, a free CSCW system that is part of the Debian Linux distribution. Hence, virtual communities are able to use sTeam and our 3D client sTeam3D to get a fully featured CSCW environment.