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Special Section on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support System -- Papers |
An Intrablog-Based Informal Communication Encouraging System that Seamlessly Links On-Line Communications to Off-Line Ones
1 The author is with School of Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi-shi, 923–1292 Japan. E-mail: y-chiba{at}jaist.ac.jp, 2 The auther is with Center for Knowledge Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nomi-shi, 923–1292 Japan. E-mail: knishi{at}jaist.ac.jp
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Abstract |
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In this paper, we propose an intrablog-based informal communication encouraging system named "Attractiblog." It has been pointed out that daily informal communications at a shared public space play very important role in information sharing in an organization. However, in most cases, the communications are often mere chats. To make the communications more informative, it is necessary to feed some common and beneficial topics there. Attractiblog is a system that extracts some articles posted in an intrablog considering who are in the shared space, and show them on a large-sized display that is located in the space. Thus, Attractiblog attempts to seamlessly link on-line communications to off-line communications. We conducted user studies and confirmed that Attractiblog can achieve a natural correspondence between topics in face-to-face informal communications and issues related to the activities of an organization as given in its intrablog.
Key Words: informal communications, intrablog, knowledge sharing, knowledge creation
Manuscript received January 29, 2007. Manuscript revised April 26, 2007.