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.pdfhttp://opencroquet.org/images/6/65/2006_3D_Annotation.pdfhttp://opencroquet.org/images/c/c4/2006_BrieUserExperience.pdfThe 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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