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Summary of collaboration projects
Here is a summary of responses to a posting I made in September,
1999, asking about 'colllaboration' efforts.
Dino (gte949e@prism.gatech.edu) is working on ICQ protocols
for Squeak:
Hey, I'm doing ICQ for squeak... It works perfectly too! But I'm working on
something a little more general right now... instead of just text
communication, how about object communication?
Dino
Jece (jecel@lsi.usp.br) offered this Morphic related
link to a 2-D collaboration space (http://www.sunlabs.com/research/distancelearning/kansas.html).
Luciano Notarfrancesco (luciano2@mail.ru) described file-ins for building blocks for collaboration:
Tom,
I've implemented:
o. speech synthesis (text-to-speech and singing voices)
o. simple gestures synthesis (2D faces, SouthPark-like toons)
o. 3D facial animation (the Waters' muscles model)
I haven't released it yet, but if you want anything of this just e-mail me and I
will send you a changeset. I think this stuff might be useful for you if you want
to implement avatars.
Cheers,
Luciano.-
Ivan Tomek (ivan.tomek@acadiau.ca) described work on a MOO in Visualworks.
We have implemented a working MOO prototype in VisualWorks,
mostly just a framework with limited functionality. We are now
designing another version, possibly to be functional around the end
of the year.
Ivan
Mark Guzdial (guzdial@cc.gatech.edu) offered a description of collaboration work being done by the Ga Tech Squeakers:
Joining in the chorus of people working on this:
Creating a "collaborative dynabook" is the focus of the Georgia Tech
Squeakers.
- We already have Lex Spoon's MuSwiki which allows for Swiki-like sharing
of any Morph.
- As you mentioned, Dino (Dean Mao) has been working on ICsQueak, and is
trying to move that into realtime chat with generic objects.
- Bolot Kerimbaev and Je77 Rick are working on Comanche (a new webserver to
replace PWS that will provide a framework for doing other kinds of
networked apps, like Linda) and Comanche Swiki (which we're already testing
in several classes with tremendous results). Je77 (pronounced "Jeff") has
a goal of creating an audio Swiki.
- I've been pestering Jeff and Andreas with questions because we are
interested (down the road) in using Wonderland to create scriptable,
sharable 3-D worlds.
Mark