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Collaborative work with the World Wide Web: adding CSCW support to a Web browser


Author(s) : John Grundy Simon Gianoutsos, 
Publisher : N/A
Publication Date : 1996
ISSN : N/A
Abstract : There has been much recent interest in using the World Wide Web to facilitate distributed, cooperative work. Unfortunately, most existing Internet tools do not provide adequate cooperative work support to make this possible. We describe our efforts in extending a simple Web browser to support a range of CSCW facilities, including telepointers, group awareness widgets, text chats, shared whiteboards, collaborative note, message and URL annotations, and collaborative text editors. We also discuss the preliminary results of usability tests of this browser which show how effectively these different CSCW extensions support cooperative work with the,