co-navigation + annotation

Hello everybody,

I am trying to integrate Web co-navigation with annotation in real-time,
using a standard browser. With this tool users will be able to exchange
ideas referring to specific portions of the shared web document.
Asynchronous annotation will also be supported as a subclass of this more
general type of annotation.

I have not come across too many references in this area. I would appreciate
it if someone could point me to some past/ongoing related projects.
Likewise, any comments on the significance or usefulness of merging
co-navigation with annotation sharing would be appreciated. I wonder why
there is so little work in the academic/public press.

This work is part of a larger framework, called e-coBrowse. I will come back
to it if there is enough interest.

-Ng-
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Ng S. T. Chong
VU Media and Technology Laboratory
Institute of Advanced Studies/United Nations University
53-67, Jingumae 5-chome
Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-8304
Email: chong@ias.unu.edu
WWW: http://vulab.ias.unu.edu
Voice: 81-3-5467-2813

Received on Monday, 18 December 2000 04:26:48 UTC