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
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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.
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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]
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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
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