Virtual Presence System: collaborative browsing for

EU-CIS teamwork

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bring together users of the WWW

provide Virtual Presence in the Web(i.e. Web-users are able to see each other on Web-pages)

let people communicate on such locations

Collaborative browsing main goals

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Finds other persons browsing the same Web-page

Provides chat functionality

Provides status information (e.g. ‘user is busy/idle’)

Deals with LDAP database system

Implements a client/server architecture

Pure Java implementation

Virtual Presence System advantages

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The system architecture

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Log on to the system

Create a new user

Follow browsed location (URL)

Display neighbouring users

Chat and private messaging

Displaying specified User’s Properties

Modifying own User’s Properties

Multilinguality on-line

Collaborative browsing user agent

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System functioning scheme

CBUA = Collaborative browsing user agent(VPS client-part)

PAIB = Presence awareness information broker(VPS server-part)

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User agent: log in window

Existing user: New user registration:

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User agent: main window

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User agent: pop-up menu and user’s info

Displaying user’s properties:

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User agent: main menu and own user’s info

Displaying/modifying own properties:

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WISTCIS main Web-site: collaborative browsing

“Start collaborative browsing”

http://www.ednes.org/wistcis

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WISTCIS main Web-site: collaborative browsing

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Countries and cities represented at virtual meetings

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Thank you!

Mr. Anatoly SOLOVIEVEDNES, Moscow

WISTCIS telematics engineer

Tel: +7 (095) 133.4339E-mail: tols@ednes.org