Sandbox Options
DICE stands for "Distributed Interactive Collaboration Environment." The DICE Sandbox is a collection of free shareware tools customized by ThoughtLink to test the effectiveness of using collaboration tools for distributed exercises/seminar games. The components are shown below. The DICE study results are available here. If you are interested in learning more about DICE or the DICE study, contact dice@thoughtlink.com.
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InstantLink! allows you to collaborate with other people currently on the ThoughtLink web site. Using Microsoft's free NetMeeting software and ThoughtLink's tools showing you who else is using InstantLink!, you can easily use all of NetMeeting's capabilities, including voice-to-voice, text chat, application sharing, and file transfer. |
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FileLink! allows you to upload or download files to the ThoughtLink web site. If you have uploaded a file, it is accessible for other users to download, read, and/or edit. If you download a file it can be read, edited, and/or uploaded again under a different file name. |
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E-Link! is a bulletin board posting script that has been tailored to filter out only the messages sent to a particular user or group of users. In the sandbox application, all messages will be posted - but for training applications, users would select from a list of recipients. After their message is posted, the recipient is notified via an e-mail. When they view E-Link! they will only see the messages that have been sent for them. |
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