Open AccessReal-Time White-Board
Author(s) -
Akshay Sharma and Shallu Bashambu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
international journal of modern trends in science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2455-3778
DOI - 10.46501/ijmtst061204
Subject(s) - upload , computer science , whiteboard , world wide web , the internet , interactive whiteboard , node (physics) , multimedia , html5 , human–computer interaction , engineering , structural engineering
Human connection is more important than ever as the world battles COVID-19. The internet plays animportant role in connecting people throughout the world. Many businesses have taken certain measures toconnect and collaborate in these unwanted times. This has led to an increase in demand for onlinecollaboration tools for connecting people throughout the world. A tool widely used in such places tocollaborate and connect is a whiteboard. In this paper, we develop a tool to increase collaboration withoutrestricting people to any location, any particular OS, or any particular device needed to be used. Ourapplication allows users to interact and collaborate through visual explanations, especially regarding thewriting of the text, making diagrams, uploading images and models/sketches interactively that can beshared with all participants connected over the network in real-time. The tool does not require any plug-in tobe downloaded, it is easy to use and has no limit on the number of clients. We have implemented this systemby using HTML5 Canvas, Node.js, and Socket.io.