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Evaluating the Impacts of Concurrency Control over User Experience in Feature-Based Collaborative Designing

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Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (ChineseCSCW 2018)

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Collaborative CAD is the trend for the next generation of CAD systems. A concurrency control approach is the fundamental leveraging tool for resolving design conflicts. Although several algorithms are proposed, seldom study has been carried out for evaluating the correctness and user satisfaction. This paper presents an experimental study to investigate users’ satisfaction level over both pessimistic and optimistic concurrency approaches. Based on the experimental results, we also discuss propose implications for developing both concurrency control approach and collaborative designing platforms.

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The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC Grant Nos. 61472289 and 61502353) and Youth Innovation Corps Fund of Humanities and Social Sciences, Wuhan University. The authors would like to thank all the reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions.

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    Yuan Cheng

  2. School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, Hubei, China

    Fazhi He, Xiao Lv & Weiwei Cai

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Cheng, Y., He, F., Lv, X., Cai, W. (2019). Evaluating the Impacts of Concurrency Control over User Experience in Feature-Based Collaborative Designing. In: Sun, Y., Lu, T., Xie, X., Gao, L., Fan, H. (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing. ChineseCSCW 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 917. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3044-5_43

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