Articulation of information requirements for personalised knowledge construction

Sun, Lily; Ousmanou, Khadidjatou

doi:10.1007/s00766-006-0031-z

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“…In addition, users normally apply their prior knowledge to process new information by which they negotiate meaning during the knowledge construction process. The finding and experiment (Sun and Ousmanou 2006) show that the information requirements are incomplete without an indication of a user's past experience. The level of prior knowledge (Pk) is considered as another important user's characteristic.…”

Section: Knowledge Construction Approachesmentioning

confidence: 88%

“…Users featured as {P,F} differ from those featured as {J,T} in terms of personal autonomy and the flexibility in processing information content. The former possesses some self-management and direction whereas the later needs directions to carry out procedures to meet pre-defined outcomes (Sun and Ousmanou 2006).…”

Section: Users Characteristics Influencing Knowledge Constructionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Modelling the personalised capability in users' requirements is essential for an effective information provision during knowledge construction (Pedersen and Liu 2003;Sun and Ousmanou 2006). Such modelling is required to produce a holistic and integrated representation of information content organisation and provision.…”

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confidence: 99%

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An ontological modelling of user requirements for personalised information provision

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The knowledge economy offers opportunity to a broad and diverse community of information systems users to efficiently gain information and know-how for improving qualifications and enhancing productivity in the work place. Such demand will continue and users will frequently require optimised and personalised information content. The advancement of information technology and the wide dissemination of information endorse individual users when constructing new knowledge from their experience in the real-world context. However, a design of personalised information provision is challenging because users' requirements and information provision specifications are complex in their representation. The existing methods are not able to effectively support this analysis process. This paper presents a mechanism which can holistically facilitate customisation of information provision based on individual users' goals, level of knowledge and cognitive styles preferences. An ontology model with embedded norms represents the domain knowledge of information provision in a specific context where users' needs can be articulated and represented in a user profile. These formal requirements can then be transformed onto information provision specifications which are used to discover suitable information content from repositories and pedagogically organise the selected content to meet the users' needs. The method is provided with adaptability which enables an appropriate response to changes in users' requirements during the process of acquiring knowledge and skills.

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Section: Knowledge Construction Approachesmentioning

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“…Initially, the main users, the type of user and its applications must be categorized , then the ICT support needs to deliver a better service, the attributes indispensable to meet the requirement in concordance to their expectation, are to be characterized , next , technical metrics should be defined and analyzed to check the performance on an application [5].…”

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Decision Support for Healthcare ICT Network System Appraisal

Oddershede

Quezada

Córdova³

et al. 2014

INT J COMPUT COMMUN

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Abstract:A framework to support the appraisal process to improve the quality of service (QoS) of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) network system in health care service is presented. Most of health-related activities stand to benefit from ICT endorsement; however, technical problems may appear, as an inadequate physical infrastructure, insufficient access by the user to the hardware/software communication infrastructure and QoS issues. The aim is to develop a prototype assessment model based on data collected from the main users of a health network system An evaluation process is carried out to analyze and assess the support of QoS of ICT, its infrastructure and user interface perception of the QoS offered through case study for hospitals in Chile. Performance has been evaluated by simulation and modelling network Architecture. The Optimization Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) simulation platform is used to examine the network behaviour and performance to ensure consistency and reliability for thousands of staff across the hospital network.

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“…The complex relation between the researcher's object of study and mode of inquiry is in essence rooted in the subjective process of interpretation, i.e., recognising the researcher's personal stance in the process of understanding the phenomenon inquired, and positioning research outcomes, as a result of the selected design and methodology (Sun and Ousmanou 2006). Interpretations are unavoidably 'shaped by the linguistic and cultural resources the interpreter already possesses' (Moss 2005, 266;Siegel 2006) and by the nature of questions the interpreter/ researcher brings to the data.…”

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Articulating choice and deliberation in conducting research – researchers ‘working in the interpretive zone’

Tillema

Barak

Mena

2008

Ethnography and Education

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For researchers, committed to a research problem, finding meaningful answers is a process of careful weighting and interpreting what is actually found as an outcome of their mode of inquiry in reference to initial intentions and research goals. Particularly in doing qualitative research in/on teaching researchers have recognised the need to acknowledge the ways in which one's intentions interact with the process of study, and how they serve to shape research outcomes. Such a recognition calls for attention to working in the interpretive zone (Wasser and Bresler 1996). Based on our own studies on teachers' reflective expertise, we show how articulation of researchers' intent and deliberation in designing a study could ameliorate critical subjectivity and reflection while analysing and interpreting accounts of data and clarifying interactions between researcher and their object of study in the construction of knowledge. This lead us to construct a heuristic tool for achieving greater reflexivity in conducting research, which may be utilised, primarily, in programmes aimed at research education.

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Articulation of information requirements for personalised knowledge construction

Cited by 9 publications

References 12 publications

An ontological modelling of user requirements for personalised information provision

An ontological modelling of user requirements for personalised information provision

Decision Support for Healthcare ICT Network System Appraisal

Articulating choice and deliberation in conducting research – researchers ‘working in the interpretive zone’

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