Paper Info
Title
Argo: a system for distributed collaboration
Abstract
The goal of the Argo system is to allow medium-sized groups of users to collaborate remotely from their desktops in a way that approaches as closely as possible the effectiveness of face-to-face meetings. In support of this goal, Argo combines high quality multi-party digital video and full-duplex audio with telepointers, shared applications, and whiteboards in a uniform and familiar environment. The shared applications can be unmodified X programs shared via a proxy server, unmodified groupware applications, and applications written using our toolkit. Workers can contact each other as easily as making a phone call, and can easily bring into a conference any material they are working on. They do so by interacting with an object-oriented, client/server conference control system. The same conference control system is used to support teleporting, i.e. moving the desktop environment from one workstation's display to another (for example, from office to home). This paper describes the system we have built to test the hypothesis that the effectiveness of remote collaboration can be substantially impacted by the responsiveness of the interaction media.
Year
DOI
Venue
1994
10.1145/192593.192716
ACM Multimedia
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
collaboration,digital video,unmodified groupware application,proxy server,multi-media,shared workspaces,desktop environment,familiar environment,groupware.,unmodified x program,shared application,conference control system,server conference control system,desktop videoconferencing,argo system,multimedia,interactive media,client server,control system,object oriented
Conference
0-89791-686-7
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
6.49
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hania Gajewska1348.68
James J. Kistler2673192.53
Mark S. Manasse31774373.76
David D. Redell4368392.22