The Collaborative Multi-User Editor Project IRIS
Michael R. Koch · 1995
The collaborative editing of documents by teams is a very common task nowadays. Writing groups are often distributed over many locations because of the globalization of organizations and the increasing interdisciplinarity of tasks. Since many writers already use computers for their jobs, providing computer support for the collaborative writing process has been identified as an important goal. Numerous tools for computer supported collaborative writing have already emerged but in most cases have not come into widespread usage. As the main reason for this lack, incorrect assumptions about the needs of the collaborating users have been identified. The goal of our current research is to identify and to satisfy the real needs of writers collaborating in wide area network environments. In accordance with the results of several studies on collaborative writing our approach is to provide as much flexibility and integrability as possible for the user. Therefore we propose an integrated environ...