Abstract
The paper presents a user interface toolkit to support the construction of cooperative multi-user interfaces. The toolkit is based on the configuration of shared interface objects to construct cooperative interfaces. A principal focus of the toolkit is the provision of accessible facilities to manage interface configuration and tailoring. Most existing facilities to manage multi-user interfaces tend to be application specific and provide only limited tailorability for purpose built cooperative applications.In addition, the current structure of most cooperative applications fails to separate the semantics of applications from the cooperation specific semantics. In this paper we present a multi-user interface toolkit that provides management facilities in a manner which separates appropriate features of cooperative use from application semantics. This is achieved by allowing multi-user interfaces to be derived from a common shared interface constructed from shared interface objects. We would suggest that the separation of semantics in this form represents an initial identification of the re-usable cooperative interface components.
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