CSR: Small: An Efficient Framework for Real-Time Collaborative Browsing

协作浏览，也称为协同浏览，允许多个用户同时访问相同的网页并协作完成某些任务。协同浏览作为一种有用且有吸引力的技术，在在线培训、客户支持等方面有着广泛的重要应用。现有的共同浏览解决方案必须使用特定的协作平台、修改后的Web服务器或专用代理来协调Web用户之间的浏览活动。此外，这些解决方案通常需要用户在他们的计算机上安装特殊软件。这些要求严重阻碍了协作浏览在互联网用户中的广泛使用。我们建议设计和开发一个高效的实时协作浏览框架。该框架是一个纯粹基于浏览器的解决方案。它利用AJAX(异步JavaScript和XML)技术的强大功能和现代Web浏览器的可扩展性来执行联合浏览。我们的目标是实现网络用户之间的实时协作，而不涉及任何第三方平台、服务器或代理。拟议的框架将允许在任意网站和网页上进行细粒度的共同浏览。该项目的成功将为在线合作提供重要的研究贡献。我们的研究成果将通过高质量的出版物和原型的开发传播给工业界和学术界。该项目的教育方面侧重于整合教育和研究活动，并加强本科生和研究生体系以及网络课程。

Collaborative browsing, also known as co-browsing, allows multiple users to access the same web pages in a simultaneous manner and collaboratively fulfill certain tasks. As a useful and attractive technique, co-browsing has a wide range of important applications such as online training and customer supporting. Existing co-browsing solutions must use either a specific collaborative platform, a modified web server, or a dedicated proxy to coordinate the browsing activities between web users. Besides, these solutions usually require users to install special software on their computers. These requirements heavily impede the wide use of collaborative browsing among Internet users. We propose to design and develop an efficient framework for Real-time Collaborative Browsing. This framework is a pure browser-based solution. It leverages the power of Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques and the extensibility of modern web browsers for performing co-browsing. Our objective is to achieve real-time collaboration among web users, without the involvement of any third-party platforms, servers, or proxies. The proposed framework will enable fine-grained co-browsing on arbitrary web sites and web pages. The success of this project will provide significant research contributions to on-line collaboration. Our research results will be disseminated to industry and academia through high-quality publications and the development of prototypes. The educational aspect of this project focuses on integrating education and research activities, and enhancing the undergraduate and graduate system and networking curricula.