Virtual Interface for Collaborative Work with RECOLLVE

The world globalization process, the increasing demand of communication and information technologies creates an enormous demand for collaborative applications. Aiming to support communication, information change and collaboration between users geographically distants, many CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) systems like audio and videoconference, shared editors, shared whiteboard and CVEs (Collaborative Virtual Environments) were developed. Collaborative Virtual Environments represent an important category of CSCW systems that use 3D shared spaces in order to support collaborative activities. We find also many systems that integrate collaborative applications to satisfy specific needs of users. We detailed in this article the potential of RECOLLVE to represent in the virtual scene a very large set of collaboration activities, including their social aspects.