REGISTRATION FOR REAL-TIME GROUPWARE

Abstract

This paper examines the groupware registration problems, both s ocial and technical, that occur as users select their tools and the others who will share them. We argue that users require far better and more flexible registration than is provided in today's systems. From our examination of users' needs we derive a set of requirements for groupware registration tools. We present a general registration architecture for creating different registration scenarios, and illustrate a number of the scenarios that we have created.