A Framework for Contextualized Visualization supporting Informal Learning

dc.creator	Eicke Godehardt
dc.date	2009-08-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:20:29Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:20:29Z
dc.identifier	10.3991/ijac.v2i3.996
dc.identifier	1867-5565
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/937a9a3c23b743e581e0884c259dc215
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28310
dc.description	The problem of the information society today is that knowledge workers are overwhelmed by the amount of information they get. This creates the need of a filter: the possibility to find relevant information in an easy and systematic way. In fact, working at a knowledge intensive workplace and retrieving information is a kind of learning – informal learning – which takes place at daily work. This type of learning includes reading documents and digital snippets, asking questions and searching for the help of other colleagues. This paper investigates how people at knowledge intensive workplaces can be supported through a graphical integration of existing information in a contextualized way to fulfill their given work task. We present research on software that visualizes the information of knowledge workers, tasks, digital resources, people and the relations between them. In addition state context information is taken to enrich the output to provide an intuitive and appropriate tool for knowledge workers. We will show all the necessary steps to offer these contextualized information in a supporting visualization. To verify the usefulness of our approach, we did a quantitative and qualitative user study to see if contextualized information visualization is helpful to knowledge workers for a specific scenario. Therefore we analyzed how beginners or new employees may benefit from such a tool. The results clearly show the advantages of our solution. Contextualized visualization substantially boosts efficiency and effectiveness of knowledge workers, because of time savings and avoidance of failures.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	kassel university press GmbH
dc.relation	http://online-journals.org/i-jac/article/view/996
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1867-5565
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Journal of Advanced Corporate Learning (iJAC), Vol 2, Iss 3, Pp 21-26 (2009)
dc.subject	context
dc.subject	awareness
dc.subject	visualization
dc.subject	informal
dc.subject	learning
dc.subject	knowledge-intensive
dc.subject	workplace
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Theory and practice of education
dc.subject	LB5-3640
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	A Framework for Contextualized Visualization supporting Informal Learning
dc.type	article