Flexible Collaboration Transparency: Supporting Worker Independence in Replicated Application-Sharing Systems

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 95-132

  Begole, James ^a   Beth, Mary ^a   Shaffer, Clifford A ^a  

^a State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Application sharing; collaboration transparency; computer supported cooperative work; Design; Flexible JAMM; groupware; Human Factors; Java; usability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85024498043     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/319091.319096     Document Type: Article

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