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Research Overview
Michael Bieber
Information Systems Department
College of Computing Sciences
New Jersey Institute of [email protected]
http://www-ec.njit.edu
Research Overview
• Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
• Digital Library Service Integration
• Relationship Analysis
• Educational Research: Collaborative Examination
• Virtual Communities
Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
Automatically add links and other “hypermedia” services to applications:
• comments
• guided tours
• structural search (based on links and relationships instead of keywords)
• others...
Buzzword compatible: – Java, Servlets, RMI, XML, XHTML, RDF, etc.
Shipping I nformation
http : / /www.nj i t .edu/purchasing /shipping-info rmat ion.htm
251 Requisition Header - Shipping and Text STRATEGIC SUPPLIES INTERN'L 71 UNION AVE Screen: Vend: V0000304390 PR: R010294 Inv: Line:
Deliver-to Address FOB: Name: MICHAEL BIEBER Rte: Org: NJIT, CIS DEPARTMENT Delivery Service: UPS Addr: 323 ML KING BLVD Delivery Date: 03-12-2000
City: NEWARK St: NJ Zip: 07102 Country: USA Phone: 973 596 2681 Ext: Requisition Codes: 58 128 PUX ZY2 Requisition Text:
Document Notes: NSample Screen from Purchasing System:all text with no links...
Shipping I nformation
http : / /www.nj i t .edu/purchasing /shipping-info rmat ion.htm
251 Requisition Header - Shipping and Text STRATEGIC SUPPLIES INTERN'L 71 UNION AVE Screen: Vend: V0000304390 PR: R010294 Inv: Line:
Deliver-to Address FOB: Name: MICHAEL BIEBER Rte: Org: NJIT, CIS DEPARTMENT Delivery Service: UPS Addr: 323 ML KING BLVD Delivery Date: 03-12-2000
City: NEWARK St: NJ Zip: 07102 Country: USA Phone: 973 596 2681 Ext: Requisition Codes: 58 128 PUX ZY2 Requisition Text:
Document Notes: NDHE automatically generates anchorsas the screen is created
Shipping I nformation
http : / /www.nj i t .edu/purchasing /shipping-info rmat ion.htm
251 Requisition Header - Shipping and Text STRATEGIC SUPPLIES INTERN'L 71 UNION AVE Screen: Vend: V0000304390 PR: R010294 Inv: Line:
Deliver-to Address FOB: Name: MICHAEL BIEBER Rte: Org: NJIT, CIS DEPARTMENT Delivery Service: UPS Addr: 323 ML KING BLVD Delivery Date: 03-12-2000
City: NEWARK St: NJ Zip: 07102 Country: USA Phone: 973 596 2681 Ext: Requisition Codes: 58 128 PUX ZY2 Requisition Text:
Document Notes: NDHE produces a list of possible linkswhen the user chooses an anchor
V0000304390
Vendor Details
Vendor Reliability
Vendor Agreements
Other Possible Vendors
Your Purchasing History
All Screens with this Vendor
Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
• Links generated based on application structure, not search or lexical analysis
– You cannot do a search on the display text “$127,322.12” to find related information…
– But you can find relationships for the element Sales[1997]
$85,101.99$127,322.12
1997 Expenses1997 Sales
Research Overview
• Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
• Digital Library Service Integration
• Relationship Analysis
• Educational Research: Collaborative Examination
• Virtual Communities
• Digital Library: Multimedia Document Services
Service Modules
Repositories
Doc
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Integrationlinking related
documents
DSLI Architecture
Service Modules
Repositories
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• Digital Library: Multimedia Document Services
• Asynchronous Discussion Tools(Groupware)
IntegrationDiscussinga document
DSLI Architecture
Service Modules
Repositories
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• Digital Library: Multimedia Document Services
• Asynchronous Discussion Tools • Hypermedia Services
• Processes/Workflows • Decision Analysis Support
• Conceptual Knowledge Structures
• Others...
DSLI Architecture
All Integrated through theDynamic Hypermedia Engine
Looking for Collaboration
• Digital library services to integrate into this infrastructure
• Collections to integrate, so they can use the various digital library services
Research Overview
• Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
• Digital Library Service Integration
• Relationship Analysis
• Educational Research: Collaborative Examination
• Virtual Communities
Relationship Analysis (RA)
– Motivation: What to link?
– RA: a systematic analysis methodology based on relationships
– RA provides analysts with a deeper understanding of a system or information domain
– The relationships “discovered” can be implemented as links (automatically by DHE)
Relationship Taxonomy
Internal
External
GenericRelationship
Self
Whole-part/Composition
Comparison
Association/Dependency
Generalization/Specialization
CharacteristicDescriptiveOccurrence
Configuration/AggregationMembership/Grouping
Classification/Instantiation
EquivalenceSimilar/Dissimilar
OrderingActivityInfluenceIntentionalSocio-organizationalTemporalSpatial
Relationship Taxonomy
Internal
External
GenericRelationship
Self
Whole-part/Composition
Comparison
Association/Dependency
Generalization/Specialization
CharacteristicDescriptiveOccurrence
Configuration/AggregationMembership/Grouping
Classification/Instantiation
EquivalenceSimilar/Dissimilar
OrderingActivityInfluenceIntentionalSocio-organizationalTemporalSpatial
RA: Sample Analysis Questions(replace “item” by “vendor”)
• Activity Relationships– Who uses this item, and how?– What are this item’s inputs and outputs; what does it produce?– What is required to use this item?– Who is involved with this item?
• Intentional Relationships (“meaning/opinions”)– Which goals, issues and arguments involve this item?– What are the policies, positions or statements on this item?– What comments and opinions have been expressed about this item?– What are the constraints, limitations, priorities and options for this item?– What rationale exists for this item?
Vendor Relationships(possible links resulting from an RA analysis)
• Vendor details (address, contact, customer service, Web site)
• Reliability (on-time, complete orders, quality, service)
• Vendor agreements & discounts
• Who else has used this vendor
• Purchasing history with this vendor(mine, others)
• All application screens with this vendor
• All documents concerning this vendor
• Annotations/comments on this vendor
• Policies regarding this vendor
• Rationale for using this vendor in the past
• What people typically buy from this vendor
• Which vendors generally give better deals than this one
• Alternatives to this vendor
• Social considerations regarding this vendor
• Vendor’s parent company and subsidiaries
• Vendor’s partnerships and agreements with other companies
• Instructions: how to choose a vendor; how to evaluate a vendor
Looking for Collaboration
• Domains/Complex Systems to analyze using Relationship Analysis
• Field study sites
Research Overview
• Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
• Digital Library Service Integration
• Relationship Analysis
• Educational Research: Collaborative Examination
• Virtual Communities
Collaborative Examinations
Jia Shen, NJITStarr Roxanne Hiltz, NJIT
Kung-E Cheng, Rutgers University Yooncheong Cho, Rutgers University
Michael Bieber, NJIT
1. Why?
• To reduce the instructor’s own work load
• To test a new method of conducting exams
2. A form of collaborative learning
• Previous research is limited
Collaborative Exam
Exam Procedures
Traditional exam:
•3-hour, in-class, 3-4 essay questions, 6 pages of notes
Collaborative exam:• Students compose questions• Students select questions (eliminated in spring 00)• Students answer selected questions• Students grade questions• Ph.d. intermediate grading• Professor assigns final grade and handles disputes
Issues• Need to see behind anonymity• Grading guidelines and grade inflation• Consistent grading
• Trade-offs for students- drawn-out process vs. concentrated- access to everything vs. limited access to notes- we couldn’t justify the process to the students fully
• Trade-offs for professors- limited but harder grading vs. easier grading- drawn-out process vs. concentrated- much more administration
Looking for Collaboration
• Other courses that would like to use a similar approach, or which we can contrast to our collaborative examinations
Research Overview
• Dynamic Hypermedia Engine
• Digital Library Service Integration
• Relationship Analysis
• Educational Research: Collaborative Examination
• Virtual Communities
Knowledge Sharing and Learningin Virtual Communities
Michael Bieber1 Ricki Goldman1
Roxanne Hiltz1 Il Im1
Ravi Paul1 Jenny Preece2 Ron Rice3
Ted Stohr4 Murray Turoff1
1New Jersey Institute of Technology 3Rutgers University (SCILS)2University of Maryland, Baltimore County 4Stevens Technical University
MotivationWhy do people participate in virtual communities?
– to attract customers/clients– for amusement– to socialize; find comfort (medical communities)– to network, build contacts– to improve what you do (job, personal)– find information/solve problems/learn from others
==> collaboration, knowledge-sharing and learning underlies most of these directly or indirectly
Research Question: How best to support this?
Goal
Increasing
people’s effectiveness
by helping them
share knowledge and learn
through virtual communities
Example Tasks (of individuals)for an academic research community
• learning about the community domain
• learning about relevant people in the community
• teaching a course
• finding materials on a research topic
• mentoring members in research or learning
• developing software using community research
• developing/selling software to serve community
Example Community Tasks of an academic research community
• running a conference
• conducting elections
• writing newsletter / submitting to the newsletter
• making the budget
• proposing & running a task force
• recruiting new society members
Approach
• Concept Building regarding knowledge and learning within virtual communities
• Study testbed communities
• Prototype tools
• Prototype procedures
• Evaluate– virtual communities– learning and effectiveness– the prototype tools and procedures
Community Knowledge Resides in...
• documents (published papers, reports, photos, videos, lesson plans, syllabi, etc.)
• discussions• decisions• conceptual models
• formal educational modules
• workflows/processes• people’s expertise
• links/relationships among all these
Service Modules
Repositories
Doc
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Disc
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H/ M
H/M
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Dec'n
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• Digital Library: Multimedia Document Services
• Asynchronous Discussion Tools • Hypermedia Services
• Processes/Workflows • Decision Analysis Support
• Conceptual Knowledge Structures
• Others...
CommunityServices Architecture
All Integrated through theDynamic Hypermedia Engine
Evaluation
• focus on individual-level and community-level
• Pilots and assessment on actual communities
• Action Research: work actively with participants
• Propositions/hypotheses and measures• Formative Evaluation to assess/improve tools
(requirements analysis, usability testing)
• Summative Evaluation to assess usage, impacts, satisfaction(direct observation, interviews, surveys, usage profiles)