COPE: behavioural and coping strategies on the Web

The aim of the COPE project is to investigate the behavioural strategies users adopt while interacting with the World Wide Web, identifying coping situations and providing technological solutions to overcome such difficulties.

Technical reports

Human Adaptation to the Web: A Proposal for a Research Programme

September 2011. Based on the findings of the initial report, a research programme is herein proposed. The main objective is to help individuals to adjust themselves to the Web by being able to bypass (or diminish the intensity of) disruptive strategies. By doing this, we hypothesize that human performance and satisfaction on the Web will be increased. Get more info about this report

Human Adaptation as a Behavioural Strategy: Preliminary Considerations for Web Interaction

August 2011. An interdisciplinary approach to study adaptive behaviour is taken in the first report of the COPE project. Analysed topics are deliberately diverse in order to holistically tackle the phenomenon: ethology, cybernetics or cognitive psychology, amongst others. We draw from them the important lessons that can be transferred to Web interaction. Get more info about this report

More detailed information on the progress of the COPE project may be found at the COPE reports repository.