It's about time: confronting latency in the development of groupware systems

dc.contributor.author	Savery, Cheryl
dc.contributor.author	Graham, T.C. Nicholas
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-31T21:04:46Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-31T21:04:46Z
dc.date.issued	2011
dc.description.abstract	The presence of network latency leads to usability problems in distributed groupware applications. Example problems include difficulty synchronizing tightly-coupled collaboration, jarring changes in the user interface following the repair of conflicting operations, and confusion when participants discuss state that appears differently to each of them. Techniques exist that can help mitigate the effects of latency, both in the user interface and the groupware application. However, as these techniques necessitate the manipulation of state over time, the effort required to implement them can be significant. In this paper, we present timelines, a programming model allowing the explicit treatment of time in groupware applications. The model has been implemented as part of the Janus toolkit.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1145/1958824.1958851
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/50802
dc.publisher	ACM	en_US
dc.publisher.url	http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1958824.1958851	en_US
dc.title	It's about time: confronting latency in the development of groupware systems	en_US
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