A Platform for Supporting Micro-Collaborations in a Diverse Device Environment
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Title
A Platform for Supporting Micro-Collaborations in a Diverse Device Environment
Subject
mobile
peer-to-peer
collaborative work
cscw
collaboration
groupware
heterogeneity
J2ME
Java ME
software engineering
Description
Collaborative software is usually thought of as providing audio-video conferencing services, application/desktop sharing, and access to large content repositories. However mobile device usage is characterized by users carrying out short and intermittent tasks sometimes referred to as â??micro-taskingâ??. Micro-collaborations are not well supported by traditional groupware systems and the work in this paper seeks out to address this. Mico is a system that provides a set of application level peer-to-peer services for the ad-hoc formation and facilitation of collaborative groups across a diverse mobile device domain. The system builds on the Java ME bindings of the JXTA P2P protocols, and is designed with an approach to use the lowest common denominators that are required for collaboration between varying degrees of mobile device capability. To demonstrate how our platform facilitates application development, we built an exemplary set of demonstration applications and include code examples here to illustrate the ease and speed afforded when developing collaborative software with Mico.
Creator
Johnson, David
Source
International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM); Vol. 3 No. 4 (2009); pp. 8-16
1865-7923
Publisher
International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria
Date
2009-10-20
Rights
Copyright (c) 2017 David Johnson
Relation
Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
Identifier
Citation
David Johnson, A Platform for Supporting Micro-Collaborations in a Diverse Device Environment, International Association of Online Engineering (IAOE), Vienna, Austria, 2009, accessed November 6, 2024, https://igi.indrastra.com/items/show/929