Supporting collaborative writing of hyperdocuments in SEPIA

• DOI: 10.1145/143457.143472
• Publication Date: 2004-02-03T09:24:12Z
• Authors: Jörg M. Haake; Brian Wilson
• Keywords: 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering; 02 engineering and technology

Today, most cooperative systems support primarily either asynchronous or synchronous (real time) cooperative work. We feel that both synchronous and asynchronous cooperation are extremely important aspects of working in groups, and to ignore one or the other is to supply only half a solution to users. In this paper, we describe the extension of the hypertext authoring system SEPIA developed at GMD-IPSI to support cooperative work among hypertext authors. Cooperative SEPIA is unique not only in its ability to support cooperative work in both of these categories, but also in how smoothly and naturally it supports the transition between these two categories.