Multimedia Groupware

  Groupware is intended to create a shared workspace that supports dynamic collaboration in a work group over space and time constraints.

To gain some collective benefits for groupware use:

• Groupware must be accepted by a majority of group members
• Be used a common work tool
• I.e. It must have achieved some critical mass at first.

Groupware is an example of Multimedia conferencing.

Common approaches to computer-based groupware include:

Local Networking

-- employing standard distributed networking technology

Shared Window Systems

-- Whiteboard applications (see above) etc. provide windows which share an application or support collaborative working.

multi-user applications

Video conferencing

Team Workstations