Abstract:
IBM CTO Emerging Internet Technology\n\nSituational Applications provide rich information and data visualization aids for decision-oriented meetings. The Cooperative Web extends these applications with mediated collaboration as well as real-time streaming high-definition video. IBM's Project Blue Spruce is a web browser based application built on Ajax, HTML 5.0, and other open standards - that replicates the power of face-to-face communications by injecting the full range of sight, sound and touch into live web meetings. Attendees can augment their meetings with shared manipulation of situational applications. Colleagues and friends can now work together using the web without sacrificing the human sensory experience of face-to-face communications.