A distributed model and architecture for interactive cooperation

Author

Antunes, Pedro ; Guimaraes, Nuno

Author_Institution

IST/INESC, Lisboa, Portugal

fYear

1993

fDate

22-24 Sep 1993

Firstpage

143

Lastpage

149

Abstract

Cooperative systems are intrinsically related to user interface systems. The design and implementation of a framework to support the construction of interactive and cooperative applications must consistently extend the models and architectures of single-user applications. The requirements for this extension include the management of the communication and coordination between users, the support for several levels of feedback (feedback about machine activities, individual user activities, and group activities), and the handling of the synchronization issues. The authors describe a distributed cooperation system based on a user interface toolkit and an interactive construction tool. The toolkit and tool were extended to enable communication data sharing, and coordination among several interacting users

Keywords

cooperative systems; distributed processing; groupware; interactive systems; synchronisation; user interfaces; data sharing; distributed architecture; distributed cooperation system; distributed model; feedback; group activities; individual user activities; interactive construction tool; interactive cooperation; machine activities; synchronization; user communication; user coordination management; user interface toolkit; Collaboration; Computer interfaces; Distributed computing; Feedback; Humans; Interactive systems; Space technology; Taxonomy; Usability; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Lisbon

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4430-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1993.344164

Filename

344164