Lightweight support for collaborative web browsing through spreadvector

Abstract

We present SpreadVector, a prototype providing lightweight support for collaborative Web browsing. While a broad need for co-browsing tools has been repeatedly identified, the rate of mainstream adoption for existing solutions is still marginal. We argue that one reason is the lack of tools that offer lightweight collaborative browsing support. With SpreadVector we provide a concept and prototype for lightweight co-browsing.

CWcollab: A Context-Aware Web-Based Collaborative Multimedia System

“…Now, Google Docs and Etherpad are both rather mature products which enable realtime document editing collaboration among multiple users. Fetter et al [14] created a collaborative web browsing tool distilling the concept of lightweight interference, transitions, and adoptions. Binda et al [15] developed a photo-sharing system to stay aware of family members' health.…”

“…In our study of four prior collaboration systems, they only support very limited types of media, as demonstrated in Table I. Here, Google Docs supports document editing, Google Hangouts supports video watching, SpreadVector [14] is for collaborative web browsing, and Collaboard [17] has a whiteboard functionality. The system described in [7] works for more types of media, even though it still only supports whiteboard and image editing.…”