Introduction
GroupKit is a freely-available groupware toolkit developed at the University of Calgary. It is
used for developing real-time conferencing applications. These are groupware applications
such as drawing tools, editors and meeting tools that are shared simultaneously among
several users. The distribution includes not only the core toolkit but over 30 example
groupware tools.
GroupKit runs on Unix workstations under the X11 window system. It is based on the
Tcl/TK packages from the University of California at Berkeley and Sun Labs, providing an
easy to use but extensible interpreted environment for developing groupware. GroupKit has
been used as a research tool for prototyping groupware systems and investigating multi-user
architectures and interaction techniques, and as a teaching tool in graduate level CSCW
courses.
Our goal with GroupKit is to make developing groupware applications "only slightly harder"
than single-user applications. At the same time, we provide facilities - motivated by CSCW
human factors work - to build features important to end users of groupware applications.
Note: we also maintain a list of other CSCW toolkits. For general CSCW information, Tom
Brinck maintains an excellent page of CSCW pointers.
다음은 위 툴킷으로 만든 team Room 이라는 툴에 대한 소개 입니다.
TeamRooms. Beta released Aug 15.
A new GroupKit application supporting both real-time and asychronous collaboration
by providing a persistent, shared electronic space with embedded groupware applets.
Also runs on Macintosh and Windows 95. Some info is also available on other
embedded GroupKit prototypes.
URL은
http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/projects/grouplab/groupkit/
입니다.
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