CAREER: Augmenting Expertise Networks

的 该奖项支持对专业知识网络的研究： 技术上增强了人们寻求信息、回答问题和完成任务的特设社交网络。 本研究进行的专业知识使用在当前的组织设置的案例研究，以更充分地了解社会需求，在扩大一个专业知识网络。 拟议 研究还设计，实施， 评估查找和存储专门知识的机制。这项研究的结果将是特设记忆系统，旨在提供一系列的服务，以增强专业知识网络。 该系统包括 分布式CSCW组件，如 作为 信息系统 创造专业的人工制品， 从 非正式的互动，专业知识信标， 专门知识 代理查找专业知识和用户 接口机制来处理查询的增加。重点是寻找新的方法来增加人们的专业知识，而不是自动化，并通过检查社会需求来提供可用性。

The award supports research into Expertise Networks: the technical augmentation of the ad-hoc social networks by which people seek information, answer questions, and accomplish tasks. This research undertakes case studies of expertise use in current organizational setting in order to more fully understand the social requirement in augmenting an expertise network. The proposed research also designs, implements, and evaluates mechanisms for finding and storing expertise. A result of this research will be the Ad-Hoc Memory System designed to provide a range of services to augment expertise networks. This system includes distributed CSCW components such as information distilleries to create expertise artifacts from informal interactions, expertise beacons to signal the location of expertise agents to locate expertise, and user interface mechanisms to handle the increase in queries. The emphasis is on finding new ways to augment people's expertise, rather than automating, and in providing usability through examining social requirements.