Design and implementation of a Web-based Real-time Interactive Collaboration Environment

Author

Hong, H.C. ; Chen, Y.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Chiao Tung Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2003

fDate

28-30 May 2003

Firstpage

295

Lastpage

300

Abstract

WWW becomes the most popular application platform due to its user friendly multimedia user interface. In this work, we design and implement a Web-based Real-time Interactive Collaboration Environment (WRICE) on the Internet. The goal of the work is to design an efficient and friendly network environment to ease the collaboration activities through the Internet. There are three important features implemented in our system, the first one is a user friendly interaction interface through synchronized free drawing and real-time video/audio stream, the second one is a scalable architecture that improves the multicast performance for multimedia content, and the third one is a web-based architecture with a variety of optional features, which are installation free from the standpoint of users.

Keywords

Internet; distance learning; groupware; user interfaces; CSCW; Internet; WRICE; Web-based real-time interactive collaboration environment; audio stream; computer supported cooperative work; distant learning; multimedia user interface; real-time video; synchronized free drawing; Application software; Auditory displays; Collaboration; Collaborative work; Computer science; IP networks; Internet; Streaming media; Videoconference; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 2003. FTDCS 2003. Proceedings. The Ninth IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of

ISSN

1071-0485

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1910-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.2003.1204350

Filename

1204350