Using Mobile and Wireless Computing to Facilitate Virtual Collaboration During a Pandemic

Wen-Chen Hu, Benu Bansal, Naima Kaabouch

People used physical meetings and gatherings to collaborate with others in the past. However, this physical collaboration no longer works during a pandemic because people are required to keep social distance, stay away from the crowd, and even work or study at home. A new way of collaboration using mobile and wireless computing, like Zoom, Slack, and Teams, has started to flourish. Mobile and wireless computing does facilitate virtual collaboration without doubt, but it also brings new concerns like security and privacy issues, which do not occur often during physical meetings or gatherings. A secure and privacy-preserved remote environment is essential for the confidential information shared over the virtual platforms because the cloud-based tools have the threat of unauthorized access and data jeopardizing. This article discusses various issues related to using mobile and wireless computing to facilitate virtual collaboration during a pandemic, and how and what technologies are used to preserve user privacy while participating virtual collaboration and make mobile and wireless computing more secure.

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