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Drag & Share: A Shared Workspace for Distributed Synchronous Collaboration

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Distributed User Interfaces

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In this paper we present a new web application (Drag&Share) to share resources among different computers using the distributed user interfaces paradigm to easily share information for synchronous collaboration. It provides a shared workspace as an extension for the local system into the network, allowing users to communicate and to share documents in real time. The application works in an internet browser, without any plug-in. It does not need to be installed on the user’s system, and it is platform independent.

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This research has been partially supported by the Spanish CDTI research project CENIT-2008-1019, the CICYT TIN2008-06596-C02-0 project and the regional projects with reference PPII10-0300-4174 and PII2C09-0185-1030.

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  1. ISE Research Group, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus universitario s/n, 02071, Albacete, Spain

    Félix Albertos Marco, Víctor M. R. Penichet & José A. Gallud

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  1. Department of Computer Systems, Avda de la Universidad s/n, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario, Albacete, 02071, Albacete, Spain

    José A. Gallud

  2. , Campus universitario s/n, ESII, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, 02071, Spain

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    Victor M.R. Penichet

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Marco, F.A., Penichet, V.M.R., Gallud, J.A. (2011). Drag & Share: A Shared Workspace for Distributed Synchronous Collaboration. In: Gallud, J., Tesoriero, R., Penichet, V. (eds) Distributed User Interfaces. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2271-5_14

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