ICT Collaboration Tools 1988 -
Left; Experimental set-up at KBS-Media Lab, Lund University, 1991, with video communication and screen sharing using Timbuktu from Farallon.
Right; A hypermedia workstation developed 1988 at KBS-Media Lab, Lund University with video display of images and films stored on video disk integrated with the hypertext based program HyperCard from Apple computer.
In research connections my research group started to use groupware for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supported collaboration at the end of the 1980s in local area networks and later on the Internet.
- We started to use email 1986 (there were 2386 email servers at that time compared to millions now).
- 1988 Timbuktu program from Farallon (remote screen control, application sharing, file transfer) . (1993 over the Internet).
- 1990 CuSeeMe from Cornell University, Itacha USA. White Pine Software 1993 released a whiteboard extension to CuSeeMe (remote video and text chat communication over the Internet)
- 1990 Aspects from Group Technologies (joint editing of drawings, word processor documents and bitmaps)
- MacEuclid from University of Colorado Boulder (Bernard Bernstein) for creating, editing and analysing reasoned arguments
- 1994 First Class from Softarc (a so called BBS/Billboard system for structured email discussions).
- 1994 KBS-Media Lab launched their web site to support easy information access over the Internet.
- During European Academic Software Award (EASA) 1994 in Heidelberg a student group presented an application sharing software for the PC Windows platform. After that Microsoft launced the NetMeeting system enabling net based application sharing, chat, and a common whiteboard as well as one-to-one video communication between workstations.
- 1997 LUVIT, Lund University (WWW learning environment)
From "Experiences from Using Internet Based Collaboration Tools". Per Christiansson presentation at 'Konference om Arkitekturforskning og IT'. Arkitektskolen i Aarhus 27.-29. april 2001.