SAGA reloaded: Towards a generic platform for developing cooperative applications

  • Authors:
  • Benjamim Fonseca;Hugo Paredes;Joao Paulo Sousa;F. Mario Martins;Eurico Carrapatoso

  • Affiliations:
  • CITAB/Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta dos Prados, Vila Real, Portugal;Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Quinta dos Prados, Vila Real, Portugal;ESTGM-IPB, Departamento de Informática e Comunicações, Mirandela, Portugal;Universidade do Minho, Departamento de Informática, Campus de Gualtar, Braga, Portugal;Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • CSCWD '09 Proceedings of the 2009 13th International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Groupware specification and development has always been a complex task, requiring special attention to issues such as notification of cooperative actions and ensuring consistency of shared data. Some years ago SAGA was developed as a framework to build groupware applications based on a set of core web services that provide the most common cooperative functionalities. Despite its potential, the last few years brought some technological developments that placed new challenges. This paper presents a new generation of the SAGA platform that adds to the original framework features that emerged recently, namely the regulation of social interaction, incorporation of new communication technologies, connectors to several external services and interaction environments, and the addition of contextual information.