Category: CSCW
Abstract: This paper presents the paradigm of Participant
        Systems that supports collaborative intellectual
        tasks among a number of persons, possibly
        distributed in different locations. To do so, it
        must support communications, multiple views, common
        data, common action and common cognitive space. Such
        a system must coordinate access to a common problem
        representation, and contain sufficient knowledge and
        expertise in the problem domain to integrate the
        activity of the users, and even to participate as
        one of the experts. The Cantata implementation is
        briefly described.
Number: 3
Bibtype: Article
Booktitle: Future Computing Systems
Author: E. Chang
Pages: 253-270
Title: Participant systems
Note: protocols, remote meetings, data sharing, implementation
Year: 1986
Volume: 1