having to meet face-to-face. A Web-based GSS has been user-driven approach was employed which drew on feedback from users and teams working with a GS Web architected, designed, and developed that begins to proprototype, interviews with GSS users and facilitators, vide the necessary support for teams to collaborate in a and over 10 years of experience with face-to-face group distributed mode.
support research, development, and design. GS Web was
Section 2 describes the need for virtual workspaces, built using HTML 3.0 and JavaScript for client interface components required to accomplish real work, activities rendering. The result is an application interface that is like the familiar Graphical User Interface (GUI) interfaces that can be performed by distributed teams, and issues that are today a defacto standard. GS Web is currently berelated to creating virtual workspaces. Section 3 describes ing used by teams from all over the world, and continuing the underlying architecture of GroupSystems for the Web design and development still relies on feedback and re-(GS Web ) including the communications infrastructure, quests from actual users to refine and extend the feaprotocols, programming languages, client/server softtures that will enable virtual teams to be productive and accomplish real work.