Personal Information Enhancement for Education

The Sidewalk project is developing superimposed tools for use by faculty and students in classroom and research settings, with a particular emphasis on use with digital libraries. One aspect of many of these tools is their support for Personal Information Enhancement (PIEnh) in an information space. In this paper we consider both the “additive” and the “subtractive” nature of PIEnh, with examples from course settings. We then examine several of the tools we have developed, from the point of view of information enhancement, and briefly present some preliminary evaluation results.