Building real-time groupware with GroupKit, a groupware toolkit
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Filling HTML forms simultaneously: CoWeb—architecture and functionality
Proceedings of the fifth international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks and ISDN systems
Efficient distributed implementation of semi-replicated synchronous groupware
Proceedings of the 9th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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
A proxy-based framework to support synchronous cooperation on the Web
Software—Practice & Experience
WebSplitter: a unified XML framework for multi-device collaborative Web browsing
CSCW '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
IEEE Internet Computing
WWW Based Collaboration with the BSCW System
SOFSEM '99 Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics on Theory and Practice of Informatics
GroupScape: Integrating Synchronous Groupware and the World Wide Web
INTERACT '97 Proceedings of the IFIP TC13 Interantional Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
A framework for coordinated multi-modal browsing with multiple clients
WWW '03 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on World Wide Web
CollaborationFramework: A Toolkit for Sharing Existing Single-User Applications without Modification
APCHI '98 Proceedings of the Third Asian Pacific Computer and Human Interaction
An Empirical Model of HTTP Network Traffic
INFOCOM '97 Proceedings of the INFOCOM '97. Sixteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Driving the Information Revolution
Lightweight Desktop-Sharing System for Web Browsers
ICITA '05 Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA'05) Volume 2 - Volume 02
Usability of Real-Time Unconstrained WWW-Co-Browsing for Educational Settings
WI '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence
A proxy-based infrastructure for web application sharing and remote collaboration on web pages
INTERACT'07 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction
Enabling co-browsing service across different browsers and devices
ESOCC'12 Proceedings of the First European conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
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Existing co-browsing solutions must use either a specific collaborative platform, a modified Web server, or a dedicated proxy to coordinate the browsing activities between Web users. In addition, these solutions usually require co-browsing participants to install special software on their computers. These requirements heavily impede the wide use of collaborative browsing over the Internet. In this paper, we propose a simple and practical framework for Real-time Collaborative Browsing (RCB). This RCB framework is a pure browser-based solution. It leverages the power of Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques and the end-user extensibility of modernWeb browsers to support co-browsing. RCB enables real-time collaboration among Web users without the involvement of any third-party platforms, servers, or proxies. It allows users to perform fine-grained high quality co-browsing on arbitrary websites and webpages. We implemented the RCB framework in the Firefox Web browser and evaluated its performance and usability. Our evaluation results demonstrate that the proposed RCB is simple, practical, helpful and easy to use.