Paper Info
Title
A chat-centric collaborative environment for web-based real-time collaboration
Abstract
Synchronous, and real-time web-based collaboration on text and multimedia content is a hot research subject. Currently collaborative multimedia applications are loosely defined. It is current practice to consider any application that allows users to connect to each other in order to exchange information in writing or through video streams, in real-time, or near real-time, as a “collaborative application”. Thus, a large number of applications presently claim to be collaborative. From an abstract point of view, collaboration implies the real-time sharing of files, streams or real-time data (such as sensor data) synchronously. In this paper, a new chat-driven architecture for collaborative rich-text and media editing and consuming is introduced. The chat has a central role in coordinating group activities. The goal of the new platform is the production of information or content by one or all of the members of the group synchronously. Central to this new concept are operational transformations and collaborative “Smart Objects”. These objects are entirely web-based and contain information related to their embedding in the content, as well as interactive functions to assist the users in their collaborative work. Real-life experiments using this new platform are described at the end.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/SACI.2015.7208180
2015 IEEE 10th Jubilee International Symposium on Applied Computational Intelligence and Informatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
collaborative environments,real-time web collaboration,groupware,group work,document co-editing,synchronized workspace
World Wide Web,Architecture,Synchronization,Embedding,Computer science,Server,Web application,Smart objects,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
7
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bogdan Ionescu145856.67
Cristian Gadea2378.40
Bogdan Solomon3476.54
Mircea Trifan441.75
Dan Ionescu5316.25
Vasile Stoicu-Tivadar6259.65