Title
Expediting expertise: supporting informal social learning in the enterprise
Abstract
In this paper, we present Expediting Expertise, a system designed to provide structured support to the otherwise informal process of social learning in the enterprise. It employs a data-driven approach where online content is automatically analyzed and categorized into relevant topics, topic-specific user expertise is calculated by comparing the models of individual users against those of the experts, and personalized recommendation of learning activities is created accordingly to facilitate expertise development. The system's UI is designed to provide users with ongoing feedback of current expertise, progress, and comparison with others. Learning recommendation is visualized with an interactive treemap which presents estimated return on investment and distance to current expertise for each recommended learning activity. Evaluation of the system showed very positive results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1145/2557500.2557539
IUI
Keywords
Field
DocType
current expertise,ongoing feedback,expediting expertise,informal process,data-driven approach,interactive treemap,topic-specific user expertise,social learning,informal social learning,individual user,expertise development,personalized recommendation,informal,assessment,social
World Wide Web,Return on investment,Computer science,Expediting,Knowledge management,Social learning,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.50
14
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jennifer C. Lai11675569.09
Jie Lu2767.62
Shimei Pan368464.41
Danny Soroker418819.90
Mercan Topkara526719.51
Justin D. Weisz611119.46
Jeff Boston7132.69
Jason Crawford8404.18