Filling HTML forms simultaneously: CoWeb—architecture and functionality
Proceedings of the fifth international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks and ISDN systems
GroupWeb: a WWW browser as real time groupware
Conference Companion on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Collaborative customer services using synchronous Web browser sharing
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
MultECommerce: a distributed architecture for collaborative shopping on the WWW
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM conference on Electronic commerce
WebSplitter: a unified XML framework for multi-device collaborative Web browsing
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
Designing multi-user multi-device systems: an architecture for multi-browsing applications
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
Bringing Web 2.0 to the Old Web: A Platform for Parasitic Applications
INTERACT '09 Proceedings of the 12th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Part I
RCB: a simple and practical framework for real-time collaborative browsing
USENIX'09 Proceedings of the 2009 conference on USENIX Annual technical conference
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When people collaborate remotely, the WWW is part of the shared resources they use together. However, web pages do not offer support for collaborative interaction such as viewing or influencing another user's browsing session - additional software needs to be installed for these features. In this paper, we present UsaProxy 2, an HTTP proxy that allows the same web page or application to be viewed and used in two browsers at the same time, without client-side software installation. This includes a visualisation of the remote user's mouse pointer, scrolling, keyboard input, following links to other pages and more. Our open-source proxy modifies HTML pages before delivering them to the browsers. The added JavaScript code provides session monitoring and shared browsing facilities. We conducted an experimental evaluation which shows that our approach works for different scenarios, such as shopping online and exchanging ideas on what to buy. The user study showed that our approach is accepted and liked by users. Combined with audio or text chat communication, it provides a very useful tool for informal, ad-hoc collaboration.