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In this research we try and implement communication systems using the metaphor of a door on the World-Wide Web (WWW) as a media for informal communications. We call those informal communications through a door “on-door communications.“ We presume a scenario such that we would visit our firend’s room in a student hall of residence; we would knock on the door and have a chat with the friend, and may leave a message on a message board on the door in case of the firend’s absence. Accordingly we introduce two tools for such communications. One is a chat system with some awareness features, viz shadow and auditory signals, and the second one is a message board for a handwritten-message exchange. When users visit a net door site, their shadows would appear on the door. A user would knock on the door to notify the others that the user would like to start a chat. The other is a whiteboard system for asynchronous communications, in which each handwritten messages are coded as a set of lines. We incorporate a feature for time visualization into the message board, so that messages in past would be fading out gradually. This paper reports on our design and implementation issues of those two systems.
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Suzumura, K., Gondo, H., Murayama, Y. (2003). Tools for On-Door Communications on WWW. In: Omidyar, C.G. (eds) Mobile and Wireless Communications. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 106. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35618-1_11
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