Designing a Multi-user Interactive Script Language for CSCW Systems

Abstract

This paper proposes an interactive script model of CSCW systems and then develops the corresponding script language, called MISL (Multi-user Interactive Script Language). By the study of multi-user interaction and multi-user interface in CSCW systems, the interactive script model treats different multi-processes working environment as a scene and suggests the scene layout-switching graph in a script. To establish CSCW systems, a Multi-user Interactive Script Language (MISL) is designed and its interpreter is implemented. To prove such idea, a distance education system with five learning modes is built as a real CSCW case.