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25 VOICE (OMMUNICATIOK WITH COMPUTERS
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Courtesy of The Society for Information Display. Used with permission.
Figure 11.15. Phone Slave's name, address, and telephone number directory
view. From Schmandt and Arons, "Phone Slave: A Graphical Telecommunications
System." Reprinted with permission from the 1984 SID
InternationalSymposium Digest of Technical Papers,edited by Jay Mor­
reale. Vol. 25, New York: PalisadesInstitute for Research Services, Inc.
June, 1984. pp. 146-149.
user interface, and remote telephone access to messages; this is described in more
detail in Chapter 12. Also, Xphone, a telephone dialer, and Xrolo, a telephone
directory application, provide the functionality of two of Phone Slave's views.
Xphone is a telephone dialing tool based in large part on the Phonetool dialing
tool developed by Stephen Casner and described earlier in this chapter. Xphone
runs under the X Window system and offers increased functionality over the original
Phonetool [Schmandt and Casner 19891. The basic idea remains the same: a
powerful telephone dialer that occupies minimal screen real estate.
Xphone is displayed as a small window showing the most recently dialed telephone
number (see Figure 11.17). There are a number of different methods of