Otowa and Takada Share "A Squeak Project Sharing System Through

Otawa and Takada Share "A Squeak Project Sharing System Through Tangible Contact and Smart Cards" at Squeakfest 07.
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Tadayuki Otowa and Hideyuki Takada of Ritsumeikan University in Japan shared their work in a system that allows students working on Squeak projects to easily share their work and collaborate using Smart Cards.

Smart Cards are memory devices that include a processor which is powered and can be read and written to via radio waves. They have a 128 Byte capacity. Students using the cards can drag an object they create to a smart card flap which is written to the card. They then, can pass the card to a fellow student who passes the card over the reader to load the object. The system also allows interfacing with SuperSwiki and SuperPartsBin.