Abstract

Abstract

Collaborative Web Browsing aims at extending currently available Web browsing capabilities in order to allow several users getting their browsing activities synchronized. A Collaborative Web Browsing system should provide all the necessary facilities to allow users to get synchronized and desynchronized in a flexible way, including both browsing actions and browser embedded presentations interactions. In this paper we present the modeling and implementation of our Collaborative Web Browsing system called CoLab 2. It implements the necessary functionalities that allow solving the problem of allowing users to collaboratively browsing the Web.

The concept of Collaborative Browsing (CB) is introduced in this paper including a short presentation of CoLab, a Java environment implementing a CB solution. The applicability of CoLab is discussed for e-learning and a possible application scenario is sketched.