Tutorial: 21. Developing Collaborative Applications on the World Wide Web

Andreas Girgensohn, FX Palo Alto Laboratory; Alison Lee, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Benefits
You will learn how to use commonly available WWW tools to design, develop, and deploy interactive and collaborative applications.

Origins
This tutorial is revised from its presentation at CHI 97.

Features

• insights into understanding of the WWW building blocks
• how to use the WWW as a rapid prototyping platform for collaborative applications
• adding application data and behavior to the WWW
• advantages and limitations of using the WWW for application development

Audience
Designers, developers and researchers working on CSCW applications or creating WWW context with an interactive and collaborative component. Basic familiarity with at least one programming language with a C-like syntax (C++, Java, Perl) is assumed. No development experience in CSCW is required.

Presentation
Lectures, demonstrations, discussions, and group exercises.

Instructors
Andreas Girgensohn is a research scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory and Alison Lee is a member of the technical staff at NYNEX Science & Technology. Both have strong backgrounds in computer science and human-computer interaction. Over the last three years, they have developed tools and methodologies to support distributed work groups. They have presented updated versions of this tutorial to the CHI, CSCW, Web and KBSE communities within the past year.

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