Recent improvements will allow global teams to log on and use the same design tools as those sitting in the room. And laptop connections and more tools for distance learning also will be added in the coming month. A team of software designers has rewritten all applications in Java, a Web-based language, making the conference room usable with Macintosh, PC, or UNIX platforms.
Faulty design can be especially costly to the manufacturer, vendor, and the user.
You can bring any kind of laptop, code, application, or file here and work without a problem. Geisler and Rogers demonstrated the new system software at the European Conference on Cooperative Work in Copenhagen in September.