Consistency Guarantees: Exploiting Application Semantics for Consistency Management in a Collaboration Toolkit

CSCW toolkits are designed to ease development of CSCW applications. They provide common, reusable components for cooperative system design, allowing application programmers to concentrate on the details of their particular applications. The underlying assumption is that toolkit components can be designed and implemented independently of the details of particular applications. However, there is good evidence to suggest that this is not true. This paper presents a new technique which allows programmers to express application requirements, so that toolkit structures can be adapted to different circumstances. Prospero is a toolkit which uses this technique to meet different application needs flexibly.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1996
• Where: CSCW
• Authors: Paul Dourish
• Keywords: CSCW 1996, CSCW Applications, CSCW Toolkits, Particular Applications, Social Sciences