[unrev-II] PhD Studentship in Compendium, Oct.2001 (KMi, Open Univ, UK)

From: Simon Buckingham Shum (sbs@acm.org)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 04:43:03 PDT

  • Next message: Gil Regev: "RE: [unrev-II] Dialog Mapping Workshop"

    Knowledge Media Institute
    The Open University, UK
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk

    PhD Studentships - to start October 2001
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships

        *** Application deadline extended to: July 16 2001 ***

    Dear Colleagues,

    The following PhD post is still vacant, with a 3 year studentship available.
    (Compendium draws heavily on Jeff Conklin's Dialog Mapping approach,
    referred to in Jack Park's recent email)

    Regards,

    Simon Buckingham Shum

    ...........................................................................

    Knowledge Media Institute (KMi)

    The Open University's Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is a 60 strong,
    rapidly expanding interdisciplinary research lab. Founded in 1995,
    and located an hour north of London in a purpose designed lab on the
    Open University's main campus, KMi undertakes high-profile research
    and development in Knowledge Media: the convergence of knowledge,
    communication and computing technologies. We offer a stimulating and
    well-endowed research environment, widely acknowledged to be at the
    leading edge of European research and development, particularly in
    new technologies for knowledge management and learning.

    ...........................................................................

    PhD Studentships

         Visual Hypertext for Collective Sensemaking and Organizational Memory

         Dr Simon Buckingham Shum and Dr John Domingue

         The Challenge: capturing and structuring group knowledge in real time
         to generate a hypertextual organizational memory resource

         The successful candidate for this PhD will work on an innovative
         approach to organizational knowledge capture, as part of the
         Compendium Project [http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/compendium].
         Fluent spoken English will be an advantage since the approach involves the
         live capture of fast flowing discussions in meetings.

         In contrast to many knowledge management approaches to codification,
         Compendium recognises the importance of negotiation and debate when
         working across diverse communities of practice, the need to capture
         unexpected, non-textual ideas fluidly and in the same environment as
         expected, structured information, and role that visual representations
         can play in collective sensemaking.

         There are several possible kinds of research that could be conducted,
         depending on your background and interests. Suitable backgrounds would
         include Meeting Facilitation/CSCW (especially experience with software
         tools to assist communication), Hypertext (argumentation; open
         hypermedia), HCI (information visualization; usability studies), and
         Computer Science (Java; Visual Basic; PHP; web discussion and
         databases).

         An example PhD might involve:

            * Working in organizations to introduce Compendium, facilitate
              meetings, and evaluate the outcomes (HCI/Facilitation/CSCW
              background)
            * Extending an existing Java hypertext system in the light of user
              feedback, and/or making it interoperable with other applications
              enabling concept maps to be morphed into and out of other
              representations.

         Relevant publications:

         Applicants will be expected to have formed ideas based on papers on
         the KMi Compendium website [http://kmi.open.ac.uk/projects/compendium]
         and the Compendium Institute website [http://www.CompendiumInstitute.org]

    ...........................................................................

         Additional Information:

            * KMI Website: http://kmi.open.ac.uk
            * KMI's Studentship Website: http://kmi.open.ac.uk/studentships/
              provides links to * KMI studentship policy * KMI studentship FAQs
              * OU Research Degrees Prospectus * OU Application Form
              * Writing KMi PhD Proposals

    ...........................................................................

    Community email addresses:
      Post message: unrev-II@onelist.com
      Subscribe: unrev-II-subscribe@onelist.com
      Unsubscribe: unrev-II-unsubscribe@onelist.com
      List owner: unrev-II-owner@onelist.com

    Shortcut URL to this page:
      http://www.onelist.com/community/unrev-II

    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Mon Jun 18 2001 - 04:56:26 PDT