DocumentCode
1996146
Title
Towards flexible media sharing: Control and coordination issues in network collaborative virtual environment
Author
Musa, Nadianatra ; Abidin, Siti Z. Z. ; Omar, Normaliza
Author_Institution
Fac. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. Technol. MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
fYear
2012
fDate
3-4 Dec. 2012
Firstpage
154
Lastpage
158
Abstract
Media is known as a medium of communication among users. Nowadays, the emergence of communication technology allows users in distributed locations to share and work interactively on digital media elements such as artifacts, documents, images, graphics and audio-video files. Users who work on the same project will form four communication relationships (one-to-one, one-to-many, one-to-selected users, many-to-many) and they share the same media. Different types of media require different handling mechanisms, especially when dealing with distributed virtual users on heterogeneous platforms. As a result, controlling and coordinating such media becoming more complex. This paper investigates the control and coordinating factors in relation to media sharing based on platform, users, media access, and API. The investigation involves comparative studies based on related research that focus on media sharing in networked collaborative workspaces. Results from this study are significant to support the control and coordination of flexible media sharing for future research.
Keywords
application program interfaces; groupware; multimedia systems; API; application program interface; communication medium; communication technology; digital media element; flexible media sharing; many-to-many communication relationship; media access; media handling mechanism; network collaborative virtual environment; networked collaborative workspace; one-to-many communication relationship; one-to-one communication relationship; one-to-selected user communication relationship; Control and coordination; collaboration; flexible media; media communication; media sharing; network environment;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Humanities, Science and Engineering (CHUSER), 2012 IEEE Colloquium on
Conference_Location
Kota Kinabalu
Print_ISBN
978-1-4673-4615-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CHUSER.2012.6504301
Filename
6504301
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