ABOUT ICE
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PlaCE members:
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The PlaCE group will focus on realising the infrastructures that are necessary to the success of collaborative environments. PlaCE aims at building open platforms that will ease implementing collaborative applications and experimenting with new interfaces and metaphors. To achieve this goal, PlaCE will build upon SICS long experience in the field, through the development of the DIVE toolkit. |
The PlaCE group will focus on realising the infrastructures that are necessary to the success of collaborative environments. PlaCE aims at building open platforms that will ease implementing collaborative applications and experimenting with new interfaces and metaphors. To achieve this goal, PlaCE will build upon SICS long experience in the field, through the development of the DIVE toolkit.
Many collaborative applications seek to allow users that are physically at different locations to share a common environment. One important thread of work will consist in realising distributed platforms that allow for high interaction while running over the Internet. This essential requirement has numerous implications on the infrastructures that PlaCE will establish. Furthermore, PlaCE will integrate (and drive) Internet trends so as to allow applications to utilise various media spaces.
PlaCE will analyse application requirements so as to implement general-purpose platforms. In particular, PlaCE seeks to offer both high-level and low-level programming interfaces to applications. This will allow for both rapid prototyping and visual programming, but also for more advanced, computing intensive applications. PlaCE will also develop concepts that permit semantic programming and allow the applications to reason about the environments at a higher level of abstraction.
Finally, PlaCE will provide platform support to integrate new interfaces and metaphors by incorporating input and output devices and providing platforms with opened input and output methods as well as targeting common event models.
