Fractal Interfaces for Collaborative Work

本研究由协调理论与协作技术特别倡议资助。这是那次比赛的11个获胜者之一。这项研究工作的目的是开发一个全新的交互式窗口概念，已经在实验室实验中实现，作为构建灵活的新型协作环境的基础。这些环境将允许合作者在一个共享的信息空间中工作，其结构易于调整，其视觉形式自然地表达了他们合作的内在结构。本研究的第一阶段是定义并实现一个交互式可缩放窗口系统的基本功能集合。然后，这个系统将在一个网络上扩展，从而提供一个共享的信息空间，这将允许任意数量的用户在一个共同的虚拟环境中工作，每个用户可能享受这个环境的不同视图。然后将进行一系列实验来测试合作者的实际收益。

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.