Developing Cooperative Media-Integrated Software

A software technology suitable for multimedia is presented based on a set of coordinated approaches. The importance of integration is stressed in the multimedia and workplace context. This leads to the notion of cooperative media-integrated soft­ware and corresponding software technology. Three important elements of a modeling and development framework for such software are motivated, denoted as "logical and physical mobility", "multimodal interaction" and "cooperation". The latter two ele­ments are elaborated by presenting corresponding approaches