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Publication summary

Author(s): Michelle Potts Steves, Wo Chang and Amy Knutilla

Publication date: June 1999

Citation: Michelle Potts Steves, Wo Chang and Amy Knutilla: "Supporting Manufacturing Process Analysis and Trouble Shooting with ACTS," In Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Workshop on Enabling Technologies Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE), June, 1999..

Key words: CSCW, groupware, annotation, SMIL

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Abstract:

This paper presents a prototype tool called ACTS (Annotation Collaboration Tool via SMIL), which was designed to meet the user requirements of a distributed, collaborative team performing remote analysis of robotic welds. ACTS is a web-based collaboration tool, based on open standards such as the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) standard web content technology Synchronized Multimedia Integrated Language (SMIL) to provide a framework of temporal and spatial synchronization for multimedia data streams. An annotation facility provides for asynchronous collaboration among colleagues. ACTS is based on the success of NIST?s S2M2 Java applet-based SMIL player, along with some extensions to the SMIL 1.0 specification. Future work is also discussed.

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