GT/SD: Performance and simplicity in a groupware toolkit

EICS'09 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 265-274

  De Alwis, Brian ^a   Gutwin, Carl ^a   Greenberg, Saul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extensibility; Groupware; Network programming; Toolkits

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; NETWORK DELAYS; NETWORK PROGRAMMING; RAPID DEVELOPMENT; REAL-WORLD NETWORKS;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONCURRENT ENGINEERING; JOB ANALYSIS; NETWORK PERFORMANCE; RAPID PROTOTYPING; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 76449087627     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1570433.1570483     Document Type: Conference Paper

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