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Collaboration-at-a-Glance is a program which provides a visual interface to an online conversation. Although the participants in the conversation may be at widely separate locations, the interface provides a visible shared electronic space for their interactions. The participants each have a first person view-point from which they can see who else is present and who is communicating with whom. In the first part of this paper, I describe the current implementation. In the second part of the paper, I discuss some of issues involved in expanding it to supplement an ongoing conversation with additional expressive information.
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Donath, J.S. The illustrated conversation. Multimed Tools Appl 1, 79–88 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01261226
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01261226