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Perceived Quality of Cloud Based Applications for Collaborative Writing

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More recently, Internet has experienced a complete makeover and has developed into an always-connected and device-independent environment. Under the influence of new technological trends, including Web 2.0, service-oriented architecture (SOA), software as a service (SaaS), and cloud computing, there has been a shift in the approach to the development of Web applications. Static Web pages that used to be designed for passive recipients of information have been re-placed with dynamic applications that enable participants to actively contribute in creating knowledge repositories. Owing to their features, collaborative editors, as examples of SaaS, have a potential to be used for both educational and professional purposes. This chapter presents the results of our research into the perceived quality of collaborative editors in which two complementary methods were used: the retrospective thinking aloud (RTA) method and a questionnaire. Through analysis of collected data, advantages and disadvantages of collaborative editors were obtained. In addition, the guidelines for their improvement and further development of similar types of applications are proposed.

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  1. Faculty of Organization and Informatics, University of Zagreb, Varaždin, Croatia

    Tihomir Orehovački

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  1. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Dept. Software Engineering, Charles University Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Jaroslav Pokorny

  2. Dept. Information Technologies, Attn. Prof. Jiri Vorisek, Prague University of Economics, Nam. W. Churchilla 4, Praha, 130 67, Czech Republic

    Vaclav Repa

  3. Fac. Mathematics & Physics, Charles University, Praha, Malostranske nam. 25, Praha 1, 118 00, Czech Republic

    Karel Richta

  4. College of Business & Economics, Dept. Information Technology &, Boise State University, Univesity Dr. 1910, Boise, 83725-1615, Idaho, USA

    Wita Wojtkowski

  5. Fac. Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Henry Linger

  6. Dept. Accountancy & Finance, National University of Ireland, University Road, Galway, Ireland

    Chris Barry

  7. Dept. Accountancy & Finance, National University of Ireland, University Road, Galway, Ireland

    Michael Lang

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Orehovački, T. (2011). Perceived Quality of Cloud Based Applications for Collaborative Writing. In: Pokorny, J., et al. Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9790-6_46

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