Technology to support groupware: the CARAT architecture

Author

Snyder, Joel M. ; Lynch, Kevin J.

Author_Institution

Arizona Univ., Tucson, AZ, USA

Volume

ii

fYear

1991

fDate

8-11 Jan 1991

Firstpage

79

Abstract

As groupware systems are implemented, designers and developers will be faced with sets of unfamiliar requirements, calling on many disciplines: graphical user interfaces, distributed databases, information retrieval, and others. Individual groupware system requirements are not necessarily complex or unique. It is the combination of requirements which presents a formidable barrier to the creation of systems. Meeting this challenge will require both new and innovative use of existing software technologies. The authors present some of the special software-based requirements of groupware, and give generic solutions to them. Collaborative research is an important intellectual activity that can benefit significantly from comprehensive automated support. They evaluate how architectural requirements are being met in CARAT, a collaborative research system in order to inform the design of the larger class of general groupware systems

Keywords

groupware; indexing; research and development management; user interfaces; CARAT; Computer Assisted Research and Analysis Tool; collaborative research system; data management; distributed databases; graphical user interfaces; groupware systems; indexing; information retrieval; system requirements; user interfaces; Buildings; Collaboration; Collaborative software; Collaborative work; Computer architecture; Context modeling; Graphical user interfaces; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Software prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1991.183964

Filename

183964