GroupKit

Greenberg, S. and Roseman, M. (1994)
GroupKit. In ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review: Special Edition of the ACM CSCW '94 Technical Video Program, 106, November. Duration 10:15. Abstract appears in CSCW'94 Technical Program.

Abstract: GroupKit is a toolkit for developing real-time groupware for desktop conferencing. GroupKit developers build groupware applications, such as shared text and graphics editors, games, and meeting support tools. They also build registration interfaces that allow participants to create, join and monitor meetings. The scenes in this video describe GroupKit's design goals, show what an end-user of GroupKit applications may see, step through GroupKit's run-time architecture, illustrate its main programming constructs (multicast remote procedure calls, conference event handling, and groupware widgets), and display different registration interfaces. By presenting a variety of GroupKit applications and discussing their code complexity, we argue that building groupware in GroupKit is only slightly harder than building conventional applications.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• HCI
• interactions lab
• GroupLab
• Saul Greenberg
• Mark Roseman
• CSCW
• groupware
• desktop conferencing