While they navigate the World Wide Web, the system records every step taken into a common local database. There are several problems in this related with consistency maintenance, co-operative browsing, ownership and privacy. The next step on this project is to specify and implement Level 2. Besides the possibility of helping groups of users navigate in large information spaces through the sharing of individual experiences, CAIN also addresses issues of adaptive interaction. We hope to let the helper agents inside CAIN evolve so as to adapt to a user profile.
Agents can follow each others user preferences when engaging in exchange of information.
Information navigation is thus seen as a process of collaborative interaction.