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Realizing a video environment: EuroPARC's RAVE system

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Lennart Lövstrand,

Kathleen Carter,

William BuxtonAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '92: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 27 - 35

https://doi.org/10.1145/142750.142754

Published: 01 June 1992 Publication History

Abstract

At EuroPARC, we have been exploring ways to allow physically separated colleagues to work together effectively and naturally. In this paper, we briefly discuss several examples of our work in the context of three themes that have emerged: the need to support the full range of shared work; the desire to ensure privacy without giving up unobtrusive awareness; and the possibility of creating systems which blur the boundaries between people, technologies and the everyday world.

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