[info] [croquet-user] Working together at things

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Howard Stearns <hstearns at wisc.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 21:48:47 -0500
To: croquet-user at duke.edu
Subject: Re: [croquet-user] Working together at things
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Reply-To: croquet-user at duke.edu, Howard Stearns <hstearns at wisc.edu>

There's a lot of exciting user interface possibilities and challenges  
in a collaborative environment.

When two people are editing the same text, do we just extend the  
single-user point-and-mark by having a pair for each user, or do we  
do something more?

Check out these papers:
http://opencroquet.org/images/7/7c/2005_Filters_and_Tasks.pdf
http://opencroquet.org/images/6/65/2006_3D_Annotation.pdf
http://opencroquet.org/images/c/c4/2006_BrieUserExperience.pdf

The current default UI that you see in most of the demos is much  
weaker, but simple and effective:  putting your mouse over an object  
reserves it for exclusive use by you until you move your mouse away.   
(But there's a bug. http://bugs.squeak.org/view.php?id=5710)

On Apr 15, 2007, at 3:44 PM, Hans N Beck wrote:

>Hi,
>
>just an idea, for me it would be nice if collaborative manipulation  
>of objects in croquet space would follow such: every Avatar who  
>wants to manipulate an object too, should touch a button in the  
>halo where he gets its own copy of a manipulator object. It should  
>be like if two people want to draw on a sheet together and every  
>must get its own pencil. That would protect against unintendet  
>changes by others comming randomly around. It would make also more  
>clear who excatly is working on an object, an who only observates  
>or is only a visitor ....
>
>Regards
>
>
>Hans
>

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