A Survey of Online Collaboration Tools
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چکیده
Nowadays using online tools to support group collaboration has become a necessity. Online collaboration tools allow users to work together in easy and efficient way. A great number of such tools have been developed that provide a variety of different features. In this paper, we investigate the available features of online collaboration tools, the meanings of these features and identify their common and key features. Based to our review, we propose to divide features provided by these tools into three main categories: collaboration, coordination, and communication. Each tool supports different sets of features each of which belongs to a specific category. The proposed categorization aims to identify how well a collaborative tool supports a group work by offering different ways of collaboration, coordination, and/or communication functionalities.
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