| Abstract: |
Designing documents that will be viewed
from remote locations via a network requires an
understanding of traditional document and interaction
design issues, plus an understanding of how network
delays will impact document delivery. Unfortunately,
being aware of networking issues is not always sufficient
since designers usually have no way of viewing their
documents as if those documents were being delivered to a
remote site. This paper describes a set of tools that
allow designers to view documents stored locally while
experiencing response time delays as if the documents
were delivered from a different location on the network.
By using measured network latencies to drive an
instrumented World-Wide Web server, we allow designers to
view the documents they create from the perspective of
someone sitting down the hall, across the country, or
across an ocean. |