Supporting cooperation with off-the-shelf applications in wired and wireless networks

Author

Bergenti, Federico ; Poggi, Agostino ; Somacher, Matteo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria dell´´Inf., Parma Univ., Italy

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

30

Lastpage

35

Abstract

This paper presents a cooperative platform that allows the sharing of information as well as the interactive use of different kinds of application in a synchronous mode. The access to the collaborative sessions is possible from different kinds of terminal and network (fixed or mobile). In particular, we address Web users and mobile users with sufficient bandwidth. The platform is based on the centralised sharing of an off-the-shelf application that relies on a collaborative version of the graphics libraries used in Java and Microsoft Windows. A first prototype of the platform has been experimented by Ph.D. students during a seminar distributed across Italy

Keywords

Internet; groupware; mobile computing; Java; Microsoft Windows; Web users; cooperative platform; graphics libraries; mobile users; off-the-shelf applications; wired networks; wireless networks; Bandwidth; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Hardware; Intelligent networks; Java; Mobile communication; User interfaces; Virtual groups; Wireless networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design, The Sixth International Conference on, 2001

Conference_Location

London, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-660-18493-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSCWD.2001.942226

Filename

942226