We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems are typically lightweight and flexible, but build up an unmanageable clutter of copied objects. At the other extreme, shared workspaces provide formal, structured collaboration, but are too heavyweight for users to set up. To bridge this gap between the ad hoc and formal, this paper introduces the notion of öbject-centric sharing", where users collaborate in a lightweight manner but aggregate and organize different types of shared artifacts into semi-structured activities with dynamic membership, hierarchical object relationships, as well as real-time and asynchronous collaboration. We present a working prototype implemented with a replicated peer-to-peer architecture, which we describe in detail, and demonstrate its performance in synchronous and asynchronous modes.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 958179
%A Geyer, Werner
%A Vogel, Jürgen
%A Cheng, Li-Te
%A Muller, Michael
%B GROUP '03: Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
%C New York, NY, USA
%D 2003
%I ACM Press
%K objects activitytheory peertopeer collaboration
%P 115-124
%R http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=958160.958179
%T Supporting activity-centric collaboration through peer-to-peer shared objects
%U http://doi.acm.org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/10.1145/958160.958179
%X We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems are typically lightweight and flexible, but build up an unmanageable clutter of copied objects. At the other extreme, shared workspaces provide formal, structured collaboration, but are too heavyweight for users to set up. To bridge this gap between the ad hoc and formal, this paper introduces the notion of öbject-centric sharing", where users collaborate in a lightweight manner but aggregate and organize different types of shared artifacts into semi-structured activities with dynamic membership, hierarchical object relationships, as well as real-time and asynchronous collaboration. We present a working prototype implemented with a replicated peer-to-peer architecture, which we describe in detail, and demonstrate its performance in synchronous and asynchronous modes.
%@ 1-58113-693-5
@inproceedings{958179,
abstract = {We describe a new collaborative technology that is mid-way between the informality of email and the formality of shared workspaces. Email and other ad hoc collaboration systems are typically lightweight and flexible, but build up an unmanageable clutter of copied objects. At the other extreme, shared workspaces provide formal, structured collaboration, but are too heavyweight for users to set up. To bridge this gap between the ad hoc and formal, this paper introduces the notion of "object-centric sharing", where users collaborate in a lightweight manner but aggregate and organize different types of shared artifacts into semi-structured activities with dynamic membership, hierarchical object relationships, as well as real-time and asynchronous collaboration. We present a working prototype implemented with a replicated peer-to-peer architecture, which we describe in detail, and demonstrate its performance in synchronous and asynchronous modes.},
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address = {New York, NY, USA},
author = {Geyer, Werner and Vogel, Jürgen and Cheng, Li-Te and Muller, Michael},
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booktitle = {GROUP '03: Proceedings of the 2003 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work},
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keywords = {objects activitytheory peertopeer collaboration},
location = {Sanibel Island, Florida, USA},
pages = {115-124},
publisher = {ACM Press},
timestamp = {2006-09-26T15:58:46.000+0200},
title = {Supporting activity-centric collaboration through peer-to-peer shared objects},
url = {http://doi.acm.org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/10.1145/958160.958179},
year = 2003
}