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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

amoroso@fosstodon.org ("Paolo Amoroso") wrote:

From 1987 to 1992 Xerox PARC ran the Colab (Electronic Meeting Room) project to study how computer technologies could support face-to-face-meetings. The researchers designed a conference room with specialized equipment such as networked Lisp Machines, a room-scale touch sensitive projection screen, and collaboration software in Interlisp.

This post by a Colab researcher summarizes the project and links to more in depth papers:

https://www.markstefik.com/?page_id=155

#meetings #retrocomputing #interlisp