Demo: CollaboRoid for Mobile Collaborative Applications

Abstract

Recent advances in smart devices and mobile communication technologies have changed the way organizations and individuals collaborate. Collaboration with ever-connected mobile devices (mobile collaboration) becomes increasingly more popular and common over traditional collaboration means like video conferencing. Mobile collaborative applications can be characterized by their resourcesharing functionalities. The current practice, however, is programmers are required to implement these functionalities in an "ad-hoc" fashion. In particular, redundant implementations exist for similar resource sharing functionalities. Moreover, the capacity of the current resource sharing practice is largely limited to the sharing of resources accessible via application layer. It is only recent that more generic approaches to remote I/O sharing for mobile devices start to appear, e.g., [2].