Supporting collaborative workspaces over XMPP

Abstract

Collaborative workspaces provide virtual workspaces to share resources among users in a systematic manner, managing resources structurally for groups or individuals. Through collaborative workspaces, users can preserve their collaborative work as well as they effectively share their resources among group users. In this paper, we present techniques for supporting collaborative workspaces for chat groups in XMPP messaging services. In addition, based on the collaborative workspaces, we present a new shared board which supports synchronous drawing for chat groups of the messaging services with various drawing tools. © 2014 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.