Synchronous collaborative applications typically take several programmer-years to develop
because of the need for difficult-to-build capabilities required to resolve issues that emerge …

There is a growing number of collaboration technology platforms that support rapid
development and deployment of Action Center applications--collaborative applications that …

Argues that future computing environments will be collaboration-oriented, globally
distributed and computation/information-rich. These environments will be accessed via …

This paper proposes Computer Assisted Collaboration Engineering (CACE) and Process
Support Systems (PSS) as a new approach to move beyond limitations of the current …

Asynchronous Collaborative Visual Analytics (ACVA) leverages group sensemaking by
releasing the constraints on when, where, and who works collaboratively. A significant task …

The value of collaboration as a tool to promote learning is becoming increasingly more
evident. Students engaged in collaborative efforts typically retain the information being …

We describe a set of ten collaborative systems projects developed at NASA Ames Research
Center over the past ten years. Our goal is to design new information technologies and …

Successful distributed collaboration requires support for informal communication,
opportunistic interactions, and smooth and frequent shifts between synchronous and …

This paper describes the theoretical foundation, architecture, and implementation of Web-
CCAT, a CyberCollaboratory for Asynchronous Teams. Through Web-CCAT students have …

Flexible user interfaces that can be customized to meet the needs of the task at hand are
particularly important for real-time group collaboration. This paper presents the user …