Title :
The GroupSPACE concept
Author_Institution :
Comput. & Autom. Inst., Hungarian Acad. of Sci., Budapest, Hungary
Abstract :
A unified computational model called GroupSPACE is presented for groupware applications of repetitive collaborative tasks in computer supported cooperative work (CSCW). GroupSPACE is a generalisation of the concept of workspace. It is inherently a distributed multimedia environment that provides specialised elementary composition and synchronisation operations on multimedia objects placed into this shared-space environment. Different views (viewpoints) of media objects and their relations are defined. According to their viewpoints, human users of GroupSPACE interact via direct manipulation on multimedia objects of GroupSPACE. The means by which different media objects are related, the control within GroupSPACE, is described by objects that can also be manipulated directly because the architecture of GroupSPACE is based on the paradigm of computational reflection
Keywords :
distributed processing; groupware; multimedia systems; synchronisation; CSCW; GroupSPACE; computational reflection; computer supported cooperative work; direct manipulation; distributed multimedia environment; distributed system; groupware applications; groupwork pattern; multimedia objects; repetitive collaborative tasks; shared-space environment; specialised elementary composition; synchronisation operations; unified computational model; viewpoints; workspace; Application software; Automation; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Communications technology; Computer architecture; Distributed computing; Humans; Laboratories; Multimedia systems;
Conference_Titel :
Distributed Computing Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pozman
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5840-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICDCS.1994.302431
