Title
A communications-enabled collaboration platform: work in progress
Abstract
Existing online collaboration tools and platforms provide basic communications integration and the ability to include some real-time information sources. For enterprise use there are requirements for extending these tools with better integration with existing intelligent communication systems, simplifying the collaboration life cycle, enabling the collaboration process, and being able to support long-term collaborations in a variety of ways. We present a new model for such a collaboration environment called ConnectedSpaces. Like a number of existing systems, ConnectedSpaces uses a collaboration space as the basic construct. We present important feature sets of ConnectedSpaces, including views, spaces as communication endpoints, space persistence and structuring, and a variety of types of embedded objects. We then describe novel features of the ConnectedSpaces framework, including space history, embedded gadgets and robots, semantic processing, and integration with other collaboration frameworks. Finally we illustrate specific ConnectedSpaces functionality with examples from experimental work.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1941530.1941552
IPTComm
Keywords
Field
DocType
work in progress,life cycle,semantic processing,real time
Semantic memory,Computer science,Collaborative software,Work in process,Information technology,Communications system,Human–computer interaction,Robot,Structuring
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.41
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
John Buford18513.30
Krishna Kishore Dhara212516.47
Venky Krishnaswamy381.30
Xiaotao Wu4264.89
Mario Kolberg550343.73