Title :
Supporting online Web-based teamwork in offline mobile mode too
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Inf. Technol., Swinburne Univ. of Technol., Melbourne, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
Research into Web based teamwork support has assumed that the network connection exists permanently, i.e. online. However, there is an increasing demand that teamwork environments should also support the offline mobile scenario that is so far not well addressed. The paper describes the radical requirements, novel mechanisms and innovative prototype for team members to work in an offline mobile mode in addition to that of the normal online mode. The prototype supports teamwork between the online and offline mobile modes with smooth switching over
Keywords :
groupware; information resources; mobile computing; user interfaces; Web based teamwork support; network connection; normal online mode; offline mobile mode; offline mobile scenario; online Web based teamwork; radical requirements; smooth switching; team members; teamwork environments; Application software; Collaborative work; HTML; Information technology; Intelligent networks; Java; Mobile computing; Programming; Prototypes; Teamwork;
Conference_Titel :
Web Information Systems Engineering, 2000. Proceedings of the First International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0577-5
DOI :
10.1109/WISE.2000.882431
