Ariadne: An Interface To Support Collaborative Database Browsing

– This paper outlines issues in the learning of information searching skills. We report on our observations of the learning of browsing skills and the subsequent iterative development and testing of the Ariadne system – intended to investigate and support the collaborative learning of search skills. A key part of this support is a mechanism for recording an interaction history and providing students with a visualisation of that history that they can reflect and comment upon. ARIADNE: AN INTERFACE TO SUPPORT COLLABORATIVE DATABASE BROWSING M.B. TWIDALE, D.M. NICHOLS, G. SMITH and J. TREVOR* *GMD-FIT.CSCW, Schlos Birlinghoven, D-53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany

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