Supporting Student-Supervisor Scientific Collaboration

This paper presents SRST, a tool designed to support knowledge management and collaboration activities of the student-supervisor relationship that arise during the development of a graduate thesis. In universities, graduate students account for the greatest part of the research work force, and are usually in close collaboration with their supervisors. Most student-supervisor interaction can be characterized as a form of knowledge management. SRST unites these concepts in a single and original tool and deals with four of the elements related to a thesis: "ideas", "tasks", "discussions", and "documents"