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Integrating Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactions in Groupware Applications

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It is common that, in a long-term asynchronous collaborative activity, groups of users engage in occasional synchronous sessions. In this paper, we discuss the data management requirements for supporting this common work practice. As users interact in different ways in each setting, requirements and solutions often need to be different. We present a data management system that allows to integrate a synchronous session in the context of a long-term asynchronous interaction, using the suitable data sharing techniques in each setting and an automatic mechanism to convert the long sequence of small updates produced in a synchronous session into a large asynchronous contribution. We exemplify the use of our approach with two multi-synchronous applications.

This work was partially supported by FCT/MCTES through POSI/FEDER.

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  1. CITI/DI, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Quinta da Torre, 2845 Monte da Caparica, Portugal

    Nuno Preguiça, J. Legatheaux Martins, Henrique Domingos & Sérgio Duarte

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  1. Dept. of Mathematics, Brock University St. Catharines, L2S 3A1, ON, Canada

    Hugo Fukś

  2. Department for Mathematics and Computer Science, FernUniversität in Hagen, 58084, Hagen, Germany

    Stephan Lukosch

  3. Center of Informatics, Federal University of Pernambuco, PO Box 7851, Recife, PE, Brasil

    Ana Carolina Salgado

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Preguiça, N., Martins, J.L., Domingos, H., Duarte, S. (2005). Integrating Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactions in Groupware Applications. In: Fukś, H., Lukosch, S., Salgado, A.C. (eds) Groupware: Design, Implementation, and Use. CRIWG 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11560296_7

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