Designing a Collaborative Research Environment for Students and their Supervisors (CRESS)

In a previous paper the CSCR domain was defined. Here this is taken to the next stage where the design of a particular Collaborative Research Environment to support Students and Supervisors (CRESS) is considered. Following the CSCR structure this paper deals with an analysis of 13 collaborative working environments to determine a preliminary design for CRESS in order to discover the most appropriate set of tools for its implementation.