The BRIDGE Scenarios

Introduction

• These are scenarios to drive the design of Bridge-based collaborative environments, in particular with respect to the concept of user proxies. Scenarios with user proxies are shown by UP after the title.
• User proxies in Bridge are...
• These scenarios drive the following design aspects of user proxies:
  • User proxies can be created to monitor...
    • Access (add/delete) to portions of text documents by specific users (1B)
    • Arrival of e-mails specified by from, to, and/or subject (5B)
    • Progress of waiting lists (5A)
  • User proxies can notifiy owners by way of...
    • On-screen alerts (5B)
    • Phone system (1B)
    • Proprietary personal alerting system (5A, (5B)
  • User proxies can compute metrics...
    • Based on progress of a waiting list (5A)
• These scenarios drive other aspects of Bridge environments such as...
  • Shared text editing (1A, 1B)
  • Notations on text documents (1A)
  • Chat to include vocie over IP (1A, 5A)
  • Presentation of streaming video (1A)
  • Shared outline tool (1A)
  • Source code needs to be editable by novices (2D)
  • Not all browsers render Bridge pages the same way (2D)
• These scenarios represent a variety of possible applications ranging from casual use to mission-critical situations.
• Screen shots of possible implementations are ../screen shots/screen shots.