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LIZA: an extensible groupware toolkit

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin, Volume 20, Issue SI

Pages 29 - 35

https://doi.org/10.1145/67450.67456

Published: 01 March 1989 Publication History

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Software for supporting groups of cooperating users — groupware — raises a number of new issues in user interface design. This paper gives a definition of groupware and presents a model of group tools based on active objects. The model has been applied to the design and implementation of an extensible groupware toolkit known as LIZA. The paper describes the architecture of LIZA. Examples of group tools running under LIZA are used to illustrate some of the problems in the design of multi-user interfaces.

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ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 20, Issue SI

March 1989

374 pages

ISSN:0736-6906

DOI:10.1145/67450

Editors:
K. Bice
Texas Instruments
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C. Lewis
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

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CHI '89: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
March 1989
397 pages
ISBN:0897913019
DOI:10.1145/67449
Editors:
K. Bice
Texas Instruments
,
C. Lewis
Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO

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