Desktop Manager

42 Digital Technical Journal Vol. 9 No. 3 1997
An advanced product development effort undertaken
by graphics engineers in the DIGITAL Workstations
Group led to the creation of a new software application
called Shared Desktop. One project goal was to enable
collaboration among users of three-dimensional (3-D)
graphics workstations that run either the UNIX or the
Windows NT operating system. Another goal was to
allow these users to access the high-performance 3-D
capabilities of their office workstations from their
laptop computers or home-based personal computers
(PCs) that run the Windows 95 system and do not

A MultiCursor
¤ X window manager
Supporting Control Room Collaboration
Grant Wallace, Peng Bi, Kai Li and Otto Anshus
Princeton Universtiy Computer Science
fgwallace,pbi,li,ottog@cs.princeton.edu
ABSTRACT
Existing window systems have been designed to support a
single user and they are not suitable for control room collab-
oration. This paper describes how to extend the X-window
system to support multiple simultaneous cursors. In a col-
laborative control room environment a multi-cursor X win-
dow system can allow multiple users to simultaneously drag,
control and input to windows on a shared display. This

Papers CHI 2000 * I-6 APRIL 2000
The Task Gallery:
A 3D window manager
George Robertson, Maarten van Dantzich, Daniel Robbins, Mary Czerwinski,
Ken Hinckley, Kirsten Risden, David Thiel, and Vadim Gorokhovsky
M i c r o s o f t Research
One M i c r o s o f t Way
Redmond, WA 98052,USA
Tel: 1-425-703-1527
E-mail: ggr@microsoft.com
ABSTRACT
The Task Gallery is a window manager that uses interactive
3D graphics to provide direct support for task management
and document comparison, lacking from many systems
implementing the desktop metaphor. User tasks appear as
artwork hung on the walls of a virtual art gallery, with the

Extending the windows desktop Interface
With Connected Handheld Computers
Brad A. Myers, Robert C. Miller, Benjamin Bostwick, and Carl Evankovich
Human Computer Interaction Institute
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
bam@cs.cmu.edu
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pebbles
ABSTRACT
Increasingly, people will be in situations where there are multiple communicating computing devices that have input /
output capabilities. For example, people might carry their handheld computer, such as a Windows CE device or a Palm
Pilot, into a room with a desktop or an embedded computer. The handheld computer can communicate with the PC using