Supporting Collaborative Drawing with the Mask Versioning Mechanism

This work presents a synchronous collaborative graphical editor that implements a proposal of an awareness mechanism of a collaborative artifact evolution. The graphical editor allows real-time, highly interactive collaborative work, using the mask metaphor to help participants in creating new diagram versions without interrupting the interaction as also to provide awareness of the diagram versions created. This paper describes the mask metaphor, the collaborative editor that implements this metaphor and discusses a case study conducted with the use of the tool.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CRIWG
• Authors: Alexandre Pereira Meire, Marcos R. S. Borges, Renata Mendes de Araujo
• Keywords: Collaborative Artifact Evolution, Collaborative Graphical Editor, CRIWG 2003, CRIWG 2007, Mask Metaphor