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VisSearch: A collaborative Web searching environment

VisSearch is a collaborative Web searching environment intended for sharing Web search results among people with similar interests, such as college students taking the same course. It facilitates students' Web searches by visualizing various Web …

Creating a concept map of your Web searches: A design rationale and Web-enabled application

Although it has become very common to use World Wide Web‐based information in many educational settings, there has been little research on how to better search and organize Web‐based information. This paper discusses the shortcomings of Web search …

The effect of creating external representations on the efficiency of Web searching

The purpose of this tudy is to investigate whether the use of extensible external representations can improve the efficiency of Web search processes for open-ended questions. An experimental Web search environment capable of visually representing Web …