WEB BASED COLLABORATION SYSTEM FOR WORKSHOP-LIKE EVENTS

This paper presents an approach to a Web based collaboration system for workshop-like events. It addresses multi-user related problems like interaction and shared resources. The collaborative environment introduced here allows simultaneous usage of a shared ’virtual computer ’ in a team. A group of students is able to interact via non-verbal communication (gestures) and to discuss the results of their work via text-chat. A real collaboration like in local seminar events is possible. Participants control the seminar-environment exclusively with their standard web browser. The remote seminar room is based on an open-source multi-user virtual reality client/server architecture, named DeepMatrix[5], which is implemented in the Java programming language. The components used are mainly based on web standards like VRML and Java