To make this task tractable, it is important to choose tools with which the researchers are familiar. On the other hand, to make our contributions general, it is important to choose a diverse set of state-of-the-art tools. We have tried to attain a useful balance among these goals by assembling a diverse multi-institutional team that has worked with a variety of tools/services.
The set of tools we have chosen for demonstration purposes are: VE applications developed at UNC, which is doing state-of-the-art research in this area, the Suite collaboration system developed by Prof. Dewan, which supports a wide range of coupling policies for textual interfaces; [ Dewan Framework Transactions ] [ Coupling Transactions ] [ Dewan Shen Access ] [ Dewan Choudhary Undo Proceedings ] the XTV system, [ Jeffay Wahab ] developed at UNC and ODU by Prof. Abdel-Wahab and Jeffay, a widely used shared window system built on top of existing X servers; HP's Shared X system, which is a commercial shared window system built on top of a modified X server; [ Garfinkel ] the DIRT system for supporting real-time services for audio and video; [ Jeffay Videoconferencing ] [ Jeffay Adaptive ] and Michigan's DistEdit, [ Prakash Toolkit ] an Emacs-based collaborative text editor.
This is our initial choice of bus clients, and we propose to finalize this set by the time the project is started.