A Novel User Interface for Group Collaboration

Flexible user interfaces that can be customized to meet the needs of the task at hand are particularly important for real-time group collaboration. This paper presents the user interface of the DISCIPLE (DIstributed System for Collaborative Information Processing and LEarning) system for synchronous groupware along with the multimodal human-computer interface enhancement. DISCIPLE supports sharing of JavaBeans-compliant components [17], i.e., beans and applets, which at runtime get imported into the shared workspace and can be interconnected into more complex components. As a result, importing various components allows user tailoring of the human-computer interface. We present a software architecture for customization of both grouplevel and application-level interfaces. The applicationlevel interface includes a management system for sharing multiple modalities across concurrent applications. This multimodal management system is loadable on demand yet strongly embedded in the DISCIPLE ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Bogdan Dorohonceanu, Boi Sletterink, Ivan Marsic
• Keywords: Biometrics, Flexible User Interface, HICSS 2000, Human-computer Interface, User Interface