Sample movies of Habanero / ISAAC use

These AVI movie files should play with Microsoft Windows Media Player or with other software including Real Video. If not, you may need to install the driver for the TSCC codec.

1. Rapid introductory tour of real-time collaboration features. The user joins a session, checks the fields in his ID card, selects an alternative image as his icon/photo, looks at the list of completed sessions, then the list of active sessions (in which he sees the current session, with himself as the only participant). He looks at the list of recorded sessions, then the search GUI for recorded sessions. He looks at the list of available tools, and selects a chat window, then a text editor. He then resizes the text editor window to be very short, and checks the list of running tools for the session. Both the chat and the editor show up as running. He orders the chat window brought to the front of the display. He then views the participants (himself) in the current session. Next, he activates and authenticates a VNC server on the machine "sisu", and views a color print job submission going on there within Microsoft PowerPoint.
2. Joining a session already in progress. In this clip, John pulls up the list of all sessions in the Logical DataBase, checks the list of completed sessions and sees the "Managers Roundtable" is not already completed, finds it instead in the list of active sessions, verifies the people he wants to talk with are involved (by checking the Active Participants list), clicks "Join", and receives a copy of the running chat window. John then checks the display of current participants, and announces his arrival.
3. Exploring documents in the Logical DataBase. The user views shared documents in the folder "Space Warfare", then deletes a document from "My Folder". He then adds a document to My Folder, and uploads it to the shared server for permanent availability. The attributes of the files within Space Warfare are then examined. Then, the just-uploaded document in My Folder is opened, which launches a local application (Microsoft Word) as the appropriate viewer of record. As Microsoft Word is not Habanero-compliant, Habanero/ISAAC offers to open a VNC server to share this application with other participants. (The offer is declined.) The user also scrolls through the document while within Word. Within the folder Space Warfare, the file "volonwar.jpg" is opened, which correspondingly also opens the local viewer of record for *.jpg files, plus another offer to host a VNC server.
4. Replaying a session. In this clip, the user performs a replay of a medical teleconference. The user selects a replay at 4 times the real-time rate. In the replayed session, the second participant arrives, they begin chatting, a whiteboard is opened and an x-ray image is displayed and annotated. A gateway to NIH/NLM's visible human dataset is opened, and an image is retrieved into a second Habanero whiteboard for annotation. The user performing the replay repositions the various tool windows as he sees fit throughout the replay.
5. Search and replay. In this clip, the user checks the list of recorded sessions (there are two). He then initiates a search for the character string "MRI", and gets a hit from within the recorded medical teleconference. That event, originally by participant "AJ Markuson", is selected, and "replay from selected event" is commanded. The session replay mechanism then jumps ahead to at, or just before, that point in the archive, and replay may be started. (This as distinguished from the other clip that shows the complete replay. In this random-access into the replay archive, all the tools open at that particular point are simultaneously activated and given state dumps appropriate to that spot in time. In the sequential replay, the tools open one by one, and the viewer sees each collaborative event as it occurs.) After tiling the various windows, and selecting a 4-to-1 speed-up in the replay, the user activates the replaying. (Note that during the replay, just before the MRI tool is activated, the word "MRI" is uttered in the chat window.)
6. Asynchronous participation in a session. In this clip, D-Searsmith joins the session "Managers Roundtable", but has to depart immediately. He elects to follow the progress of the meeting asynchronously. From the GUI, he selects "Leave and ... Make Asynchronous". He is then free to shut down his client and depart. Summarization facilities (shown in other clips) remain active on his behalf.
7. Viewing e-mail receipts asynchronously. In this clip, Duane opens a protected web page summarizing the e-mail receipts of multiple sessions in which he is interested. Selecting one of these sessions, he receives a list of e-mails that have been received since he disconnected from that session. For one of these messages, he notices an icon indicating a MIME-encoded attachment. He opens that e-mail. Then, opens the attached file, which launches Microsoft Word as its viewer of record. Similarly, a second e-mail contains a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet as attachment. The spreadsheet is also opened.
8. Interacting asynchronously. In this clip, D-Searsmith receives an e-mail notification (in Microsoft Outlook Express) from his ISAAC watch agent (filter), advising him to connect and receive updates. He clicks on the provided link, and authenticates in to ISAAC's web server. He connects to the personalized change summary for the time since he disconnected from the "Managers Round Table", and opens a thumbnail image of a Microsoft PowerPoint slide the group is discussing. He then activates the link provided on the Web page, which opens his Outlook Express, pre-configured to send mail to his colleagues in the Managers Round Table session. He composes a note, attaches a Microsoft Word document, and sends the e-mail.
9. Receipt of e-mail within a running session. In this clip, the e-mail client is checked while within the running session "Managers Roundtable". The letter from Duane (sent in the preceeding example), with its attached Microsoft Word document, has arrived. That attachment is loaded for viewing. As Microsoft Word is not Habanero-compliant, Habanero/ISAAC offers to open a VNC server to share this application with other participants. (The offer is declined.) The user then scrolls through the document while within Word.