Evaluating the Performance of Real-Time Collaboration on Mobile Devices

Real-time distributed groupware systems are becoming common, but real-time interaction is still poorly supported, particularly on mobile devices. The problem to be addressed in this project is that current mobile groupware systems do not provide adequate support for high speed tightly-coupled interaction. The two main activities will be to evaluate the capabilities of mobile devices for supporting different types of real-time interaction, and to adapt and test application-level networking techniques to improve this support in real-time groupware. The partner company will benefit from this research though improved understanding of the design principles for these systems, and results of performance tests that will help to improve development efforts for an on-going project.

Faculty Supervisor:

Carl Gutwin

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Partner:

College Mobile

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Professional, scientific and technical services

University:

University of Saskatchewan

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