Developing collaborative peer-to-peer applications on mobile devices

Abstract

Mobile computing has experienced a rapid growth and there are nowadays many applications being developed. According to the literature, many of these applications are designed for collaborative work or learning and share the same requirements: they implement a peer-to-peer communication architecture, there are subgroups inside the group of participants which have to work together and coordinate with the rest ofthe groups and they need to implement a proper human-computer interaction paradigm since they have a reduced area to interact with the application's interface. It is then quite natural to think about the development of a framework supporting this kind of applications. In this paper we present such a framework and an example ofits application.

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“…Indeed, while in the recent past, collaborative group work was based on the web and peer-to-peer applications [17], [25], now most of the group work goes mobile. The use of mobile devices gives a new dimension to collaborative group work, which is not possible with Web-based group work, namely, the members of a group cannot only be geographically distributed, they can also do collaborative work on the move, anytime, anywhere [14] in both online * SmartLearn Group, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain and offline modes of work [26].…”

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“…Indeed, while in the recent past, collaborative group work was based on the web and peer-to-peer applications [16], [21], now most of the group work goes mobile. The use of mobile devices gives a new dimension to collaborative group work, which is not possible with Web-based group work, namely, the members of a group cannot only be geographically distributed, they can also do collaborative work on the move, anytime, anywhere [10] in both online and offline modes of work [22].…”