The DrawStream Station or the AVCs of Video Cocktail Napkins

Author

Harrison, Steve ; Minneman, Scott ; Marinacci, Joshua

Author_Institution

Xerox Palo Alto Res. Center, CA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

543

Abstract

The paper reports on the development of a multimedia system to support collaborative design processes. The DrawStream Station was developed through a cycle of observation of real work, identification of problem characteristics and system requirements, development of the technology, and observation of the technology in use. The system is a combination of a high quality multimedia infrastructure and a particular form of “Space Above/Space Below” interface merging real and virtual representations. The control interface mixes a variety of temporal and logical representations to display a threaded conversation. We report on the use of the system as a way to understand the dynamics of genre systems. Two nascent genres are identified: Asynchronous Video Conversations and Video Cocktail Napkins

Keywords

CAD; design engineering; groupware; multimedia systems; user interfaces; AVCs; Asynchronous Video Conversations; DrawStream Station; Space Above/Space Below interface; Video Cocktail Napkins; collaborative design processes; control interface; genre systems; high quality multimedia infrastructure; logical representations; multimedia system; problem characteristics; system requirements; threaded conversation; virtual representations; Automatic voltage control; Collaborative work; Control systems; Displays; Internet; Merging; Process design; Sociotechnical systems; Space technology; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1999.779259

Filename

779259