CoLab: A Flexible Collaborative Web Browsing Tool

Hoyos-Rivera, Guillermo-de-Jesús; Lima-Gomes, R.; Courtiat, Jean-Pierre

doi:10.1109/aina.2005.135

Cited by 8 publications

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“…A second difference is that the client side of existing co-browsing solutions is often implemented as Java applets whereas in our solution, the client side can be implemented in JavaScript. This is for example the case in [5], [6] and [7].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Colab [7] is a co-browsing solution that is also based on a backend co-browse proxy server and requires support for Java applets by the browser. The main focus of this work is on easily creating and releasing synchronization relations among users.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Notable examples are online word processors like Google Docs 4 , the IM web client Meebo 5 , and the Google e-mail web client 6 . But the use of these technologies also causes state-ofthe-art co-browsing solutions as [4] and [7] to be not suited for such type of web applications, since they have been developed for static web pages. They do not support the synchronization of the dynamic parts and the JavaScript and Ajax interactions of web pages.…”

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Co-browsing dynamic web pages

Lowet

Goergen

2009

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web

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Collaborative browsing, or co-browsing, is the co-navigation of the web with other people at-a-distance, supported by software that takes care of synchronizing the browsers. Current state-of-the-art solutions are able to do co-browsing of "static web pages", and do not support the synchronization of JavaScript interactions. However, currently many web pages use JavaScript and Ajax techniques to create highly dynamic and interactive web applications. In this paper, we describe two approaches for co-browsing that both support the synchronization of the JavaScript and Ajax interactions of dynamic web pages. One approach is based on synchronizing the output of the JavaScript engine by sending over the changes made on the DOM tree. The other approach is based on synchronizing the input of the JavaScript engine by synchronizing UI events and incoming data. Since the latter solution offers a better user experience and is more scalable, it is elaborated in more detail. An important aspect of both approaches is that they operate at the DOM level. Therefore, the client-side can be implemented in JavaScript and no browser extensions are required. To the best of the authors' knowledge this is the first DOM-level co-browsing solution that also enables co-browsing of the dynamic interaction parts of web pages. The presented co-browsing solution has been implemented in a research demonstrator which allows users to do co-browsing of web-applications on browser-based networked televisions.

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Section: Figure 2 Benefits Of a Generic Co-browsing Solutionmentioning

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Co-browsing dynamic web pages

Lowet

Goergen

2009

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on World Wide Web

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“…In order to test the LEICA's prototype, two open source applications are currently being integrated: a collaborative web browsing tool (CoLab [14]) and a multi-rooms chat tool (Babylon [15]). Further, API based applications will be integrated (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

LEICA: Loosely-Coupled Environment for Integrating Collaborative Applications

Gomes¹,

Rivera²,

Courtiat³

16th International Workshop on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA'05)

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“…In [1], we proposed a Collaborative Web Browsing system called CoLab, which allows users to easily create and release browsing synchronization relations. We understand a synchronization relation as binding the Web browsing of one user to that of another one.…”

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Collaborative Web Browsing Tool supporting Audio/Video Interactive Presentations

Hoyos-Rivera

Lima-Gomes

Courtiat

et al.

14th IEEE International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprise (WETICE'05)

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Collaborative Web Browsing aims at extending currently available Web browsing capabilities in order to allow several users getting their browsing activities synchronized. A Collaborative Web Browsing system should provide all the necessary facilities to allow users to get synchronized and desynchronized in a flexible way, including both browsing actions and browser embedded presentations interactions. In this paper we present the modeling and implementation of our Collaborative Web Browsing system called CoLab 2. It implements the necessary functionalities that allow solving the problem of allowing users to collaboratively browsing the Web.

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CoLab: A Flexible Collaborative Web Browsing Tool

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Cited by 8 publications

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Co-browsing dynamic web pages

Co-browsing dynamic web pages

LEICA: Loosely-Coupled Environment for Integrating Collaborative Applications

Collaborative Web Browsing Tool supporting Audio/Video Interactive Presentations

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