A design framework for collaborative browsing

Abstract

Collaborative Browsing has experienced an increasing popularity as a topic for both, academic research and commercial sofmare development, due mainly to the promise that it represents as an enabling technologv for distant collaboration. Several areas are adequate for the application of this paradigm.In this paper, we present the results of an overview analysis of diSferent proposals found in the literature, and show their main dflerences from the point of view of the conceptual models they use, and the practical solutions they provide. Based on this overview, we propose a framework for the design of Collaborative Browsing Systems. Finally, we focus on the framework instantiation for the conceptual model and architecture we started to develop.