The project attempts to present all that is needed to create or run SuperCAL applications, e.g. software configurations, reusable CAL objects, a basic set of interactions for Windows PC's including scripts for multiple choice questions, list ranking, simulations. Some of the SuperCAL sample applications are worth a look, e.g. WinEcon, Trading Firms, but you will need to be using PC Windows and to have loaded the free run-time Toolbook software. At the University of Southern California, the Mercury Project operates a WWW site which allows users to tele-operate a robot arm moving over a terrain filled with buried artefacts. Users can 'excavate' regions within the sand and view the results via an mpeg file . An Interactive Exhibit on the World Wide Web by Mark J. Cox, and Dr. John E.F.Baruch discusses the Bradford Robotic Telescope, and the way in which WWW is being used to give users access to data generated by the telescope, as well as information about the telescope.
Users can register, request observations, and even control the telescope in real-time.
Programs are interfaced using the Common Gateway Interface. The Robotic Telescopes paper includes a chapter entitled Interactive Exhibits on the Web which has pointers to an interesting collection of examples of interactivity via the Web.