O uso de templates para agilizar a customização de ambientes colaborativos

Abstract

The increasing use of collaborative virtual environments in many forms highlights gaps in current technological support with respect to customization of the environment and its interface. This fact urges the creation of new proposes to assist with the needs or preferences of virtual spaces participants. This work presents a software architecture that supports the authoring and editing in the creation of virtual spaces visual interfaces developed from MOrFEu, providing ways of customizing environments and, consequently, generating better adaptation to the cognitive styles of their users. The templates, instances of graphical user interfaces are created individually or with other users. Users are also benefited with the possibility of reuse and customization.