A model for semi-(a)synchronous collaborative editing

  • Authors:
  • Sten Minör;Boris Magnusson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden;Department of Computer Science, Lund University, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • ECSCW'93 Proceedings of the third conference on European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

This paper presents a new model for semi-synchronous collaborative editing. It fills the gap between asynchronous and synchronous editing styles. The model is based on hierarchically partitioned documents, fine-grained version control, and a mechanism called active diffs for supplying collaboration awareness. The aim of the model is to provide an editing style that better suits the way people actually are working when editing a document or program together, using different writing strategies during different activities.