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Enabling End Users to Build Situational Collaborative Mashups at Runtime

Authors:
Gregor Blichmann
Carsten Radeck
Klaus Meißner

Keywords: Collaborative End User Development; Synchronous Groupware; Mashup Composition

Abstract:
Web based collaboration gains importance in everyday life. However, users have to switch between dedicated collaboration tools that are not interoperable and do not satisfy the long tail of user needs. To overcome this, users would have to develop customized applications by themselves. Caused by a lack of support for users without programming experiences, existing approaches lack support for end user development (EUD) or cause high cognitive load leading to frustration. Therefore, we utilize the mashup paradigm to empower end users in configuring their collaboration environment independently. To address arbitrary collaboration demands, we enable to synchronize collaborative and non collaborative components during an application’s runtime. In addition, users are able to share mashups as well as components, entirely or only in part, with an arbitrary number of collaboration partners. To further allow for individual user preferences, amongst others, we facilitate a emantic component description to synchronize different implementations of functionally similar applications.

Pages: 120 to 123

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: June 23, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3972

ISBN: 978-1-61208-280-6

Location: Rome, Italy

Dates: from June 23, 2013 to June 28, 2013