Fractal Interfaces for Collaborative Work

这项研究是由联合国特别倡议资助的。 协调理论与协作技术。 这是 在这场比赛中，有11名获胜者。 这项研究工作的目的是开发一种全新的 交互式窗口概念，已经在 实验室，作为基础，为建设灵活的新形式， 协作环境。 这些环境将允许 合作者在共享的信息空间内工作， 结构调整容易，视觉形态自然 表达了他们合作的内在结构。 第一 本研究的阶段是定义和实施一个基本的 交互式可缩放窗口系统中的函数集合。 该系统将通过网络扩展，从而使 提供一个共享的信息空间，这将允许任意 在公共虚拟环境中工作的用户数量，每个 可能会对这个环境有不同的看法。 然后 一系列测试合作者真实的利益的实验将 进行。

This research is funded under the Special Initiative on Coordination Theory and Collaboration Technology. This is one of eleven winners under that competition. The object of this research effort is to exploit a wholly new interactive window concept, already experimentally implemented in the laboratory, as a basis for construction of flexible new forms of collaboration environments. These environments will allow collaborators to work within a shared information space whose structure adjusts easily to and whose visual form naturally expresses the inherent structure of their collaboration. The first stage of this research is to define and implement a basic collection of functions in an interactive zoomable window system. This system will then be extended across a network, thereby making available a shared information space which will allow an arbitrary number of users to work in a common virtual environment, each possibly enjoying a different view of this environment. Then a series of experiments to test the real benefit to collaborators will be conducted.