look at commands like zlocate and znol --> not quite peripheral awareness but almost there.... http://web.mit.edu/olh/Zephyr/Zephyr.html#find also how to hide from zephyr http://web.mit.edu/olh/Zephyr/Zephyr.html#expose and alerts like: Here is a partial list of instances belonging to class message. Note that none of these instances are officially sanctioned. INSTANCE SYNOPSIS personal User to user messages. urgent Urgent user messages. proverb Proverb every hour. weather Weather report on the half hour. xconq Messages concerning the xconq game, especially finding opponents. boggle Automatic message when someone starts playing mboggle. hunt Automatic message when someone starts playing hunt. consult Consultant messages for consultant communication. sipb Questions, answers, and discussions involving SIPB (Student Information Processing Board) members. watchmaker Technical discussions about Athena. Watchmakers are student programmers employed by Athena system development. white-magic Random discussions, hard to define. Listen in if you're not too busy. A voluminous instance. Quentin (Gad) Jones wrote:
From all the articles I have read Zephyr did not have anything like a simple pop up list that showed a list of buddies at one time that could be kept up as a peripheral awareness display which showed online status of users. If this is incorrect could you direct me to a source where I could read more, and see what the user interface looked like. This is the type of stuff we are starting to teach at NJIT. I have access to a great compilation video going back 30+ years showing what windowing and scrolling looked like and there is a lot to be learnt from it. Nothing like that appears to exist for IM features.
Just to make it clear how important a feature peripheral awareness is a a distinct function I would recommend (UNFORTUNATELY :-) looking at a recent CSCW paper on a new Microsoft product.
Designing and Deploying an Information Awareness Interface. JJ Cadiz, Gina Danielle Venolia, Gavin Jancke, and Anoop Gupta. Proceedings of the 2002 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2002). ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/tr-2002-87.pdf
While it of course ignores all commercial IM efforts other than Microsoft's it does review the literature quite well.
Quentin
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