Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!rej From: rej@cornell.UUCP (Ralph Johnson) Newsgroups: net.cog-eng Subject: Re: Results of "computer-mediated social interaction" query Message-ID: <1631@cornell.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Oct-84 09:50:27 EDT Article-I.D.: cornell.1631 Posted: Wed Oct 17 09:50:27 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 05:57:29 EDT References: <691@sdcsla.UUCP> Reply-To: rej@gvax.UUCP (Ralph Johnson) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 13 It seems to me that the Xerox user interface would be ideal for letting several users communicate over a computer. Two or more users could link to a single workspace and would have identical images on their terminals. Both could type simultaniously, hopefully in different windows. If an expert was helping someone than they could communicate through a "talk" window with an editor, the advisee could run things and point out the problem to the expert, and the expert could also run things and explain the problem to the advisee. All that would be necessary to add this feature would be the ability to support multiple mice and keyboards and to treat several CRTs as one. The major problem is that the interface to the CRT is usually at the bitmap level, so a very high bandwidth is needed. A high speed network would be necessary for reasonable performance. Has this been done already?