Collaborative browsing in the world wide web
Gabriel Sidler, Andrew Scott, Heiner Wolf · Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University) · 1997
The World Wide Web (WWW) is today the most successful service of the Internet. The richness of information available combined with easy access to this information makes it a premier information gathering tool for researchers and consumers, however, the model of today's WWW does not include the users. The WWW is a purely information focused environment, consisting of documents and links between these documents. The virtual world formed by the linked information on the WWW is completely separated from the world of its users. The CoBrow 1 project [6] proposes to extend the model of the WWW to include its users. This will enable many new applications like WWW based conferencing, help desks, online presentations, online tours, and group entertainment. We believe that the WWW is well suited to become the unifying platform for synchronous, interactive collaboration across the Internet. CoBrow has developed a model of a WWW that includes its users. The approach chosen is to associate users ...