Work-in-Progress: SYNERGIA, Towards an Online Communication and Collaboration Interactivity

During the period of pandemic, teleconference platforms and various online tools became critical options for working or educational environments to continue their activities. Nowadays, in many cases there is a mixed environment (online and onsite) taking advantage of the development of various online platforms. This situation revealed the need of the development of dynamic and immersive online communication tools. Thus, the field of teleconference tools is a very fast-growing area. The most known teleconference tools provide basic collaboration features such as voice and video communication screen sharing and text chat. The proposed application tries to provide advanced technological support to various distant collaboration activities, especially in the area of e-learning. It focusses on interactive communication features that can significantly reduce the distance between the persons participating in a web conference. There is a considerable gap between web conference and web collaboration. This article is proposing a web conference tool which is focused to support online collaboration and interactivity trying to contribute to an attempt to bridge this gap.