CHIME: A Metadata-Based Distributed Software Development Environment

Abstract

We introduce CHIME, the Columbia Hypermedia IMmersion Environment, a metadata-based information environment, and describe its potential applications for internet and intranet-based distributed software development. CHIME derives many of its concepts from Multi-User Domains (MUDs), placing users in a semi-automatically generated 3D virtual world representing the software system. Users interact with project artifacts by "walking around" the virtual world, where they potentially encounter and collaborate with other users' avatars. CHIME aims to support large software development projects, in which team members are often geographically and temporally dispersed, through novel use of virtual environment technology. We describe the mechanisms through which CHIME worlds are populated with project artifacts, as well as our initial experiments with CHIME and our future goals for the system.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA437472

Entities

People

  • Gail E. Kaiser
  • Stephen E. Dossick

Organizations

  • University of British Columbia

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artifacts
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Electronic Mail
  • Environment
  • Internet
  • Metadata
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Development
  • User Interface
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR) EDI Research and Innovation.