A Decoupled Architecture for Action-Oriented Coordination and Awareness Management in CSCL/W Frameworks

This paper introduces AORTA, a software architecture that provides object-level coordination and shared workspace awareness support to synchronous and distributed collaborative applications. AORTA is motivated by the need to enhance current coordination and awareness capabilities of existing software component frameworks for the domains of CSCL (ComputerSupported Collaborative Learning) and CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work). AORTA is characterized by the use of actions as its key ion instead of low-level events, the support for mutual influence between coordination and awareness, the use of coordination and awareness policies for supporting complex and dynamic collaboration scenarios, and the use of software design patterns in order to decouple coordination and awareness from the development of other aspects of CSCL/W applications. The paper motivates, justifies, and describes the main functional features of AORTA as well as its proposed software architecture. The paper also i...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: CRIWG
• Authors: Pablo Orozco, Juan I. Asensio-Pérez, Pedro García López, Yannis A. Dimitriadis, Carles Pairot
• Keywords: AORTA, Awareness, Awareness Support, CRIWG 2004, CRIWG 2007