CPE/CSC 581-S07 Usability and Knowledge Management
CPE/CSC 581-S07 Usability and Knowledge Management Schedule
The following table provides an outline for the course schedule.
It lists the topic for a particular week, together with references
to the respective entries in the reading list, and to the assignments
with their due dates. Material will be made available as the course proceeds,
so some links will be broken initially.
Due to the special circumstances this quarter combining aspects of CSC 486 and 581,
the schedule below is tentative. In particular, the topics addressed and their
sequence may undergo some changes.
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Week Date Topic KeywordsDescription Readings Speaker Topic Assignment Lab Activity Project Due Student Presentation Student Commentators 1 April 3 IntroductionAn overview of the course.
Knowledge and humans: benefits, problems.
Knowledge and computers: knowledge representation, reasoning.
Dealing with large accumulations of knowledge: libraries, other repositories.
Computer support for dealing with knowledge: storage, retrieval, evaluation, visualization.
John Keller; Adam Gray Mars Sonification, NOAA Large Astronomical Data Sets; Ontological MappingAssignment 1: KM ToolsTeam formation; brainstorming of ideas;
previous team projectsName/Topic: Name/Topic: April 5 Identify potential topics________________________________________2 April 10 Knowledge Acquisition, Representation and ManipulationBasic principles and methods to enable computers to deal with knowledge:
Transfer of knowledge from humans to computers,
extraction of knowledge from data collections ("data mining"),
representation of knowledge in computers (rules, frames, scripts, meta-data, RDF),
generating new knowledge from existing knowledge (inference, reasoning).
Presentation and Paper Select topic________________________________________ April 12 Milestone Week 2: Requirements, Testing and Evaluation Plan; teams established; project definition Paper topic proposal Brett Bojduj, Dennis Taylor: NN for OO for Function ApproximationJohn Vu: Managing Image Metadata3 April 17 Usability and Knowledge Computer support to make the utilization of knowledge easier and more effective for humans:
Balance of conflicting requirements (e.g. levels of abstraction vs. access to specific details);
selection of suitable knowledge organization and presentation methods.
Assignment 2: KM Body of Knowledge Requirements definition, tentative schedule ____________________ April 19 Reviewer feedback to paper topic proposal Jason Anderson: Knowledge Discovery in Data Bases____________________4 April 24 Knowledge Organization Establishing relations among knowledge items:
explicit vs. implicit relations; special relations such as similarity,
part-of, contains, ...
Methods for organizing knowledge: hierarchies, categorization schemes, descriptors,
ontologies, metadata, Semantic Web.
Michael Miller Knowledge Management in Libraries Milestone Week 4: Prototype 1 (alpha) ________________________________________ April 26 Ryan MacConnell, Ben Woskow: Human Factors in Scientific Visualization____________________5 May 1 Knowledge Retrieval Finding and retrieving relevant knowledge items from large collections:
Information retrieval, search engines, relevance ranking.Assignment 3: Knowledge Presentation and VisualizationScott Griffin, Clay Schenkel: Content Management System Drupal Steven Eberling, Jimmy Hua: Human Computation May 3 Christine Le: Mapster and Educational Software Usability EvaluationCaleb Troughton, Michael Cook: Microformats6 May 8 Knowledge Presentation Presentation of identified relevant knowledge items to the human user:
Text, graphics, animation; visualization techniques,
alternative presentation methods (e.g. audio);
Human-Computer Interface (HCI) and usability aspects.
Hisham Assal, Shan Pan, Adam Gray Knowledge Management at CDM Milestone Week 6: Prototype 2 (beta) Educause ConferenceEducause Conference May 10 Ryan Guest: Localization of SoftwareHarry Bui: Indexing Digital MediaAlex Herold: Legal Data Knowledge Management 7 May 15 Knowledge Exchange Sharing knowledge between computers and humans:
Knowledge exchange languages,
internal representation of knowledge vs. sharing,
levels of abstraction, details.
Computer-computer vs. computer-human knowledge exchange.
David Gillette Paper Reviews by Technical Writing Class Students Assignment 4: Knowledge Usability Evaluation Paper draft version Craig Maas, Justin Glaeser: Non-Textual Search AlgorithmsJonathan Davis: Ontological Semantics May 17 Adam GrayIMT Usability Evaluation -- cancelled --Dustin Anderson, Kate Razina: Data Mining Benjamin Koonce: DSpacePhilip Choi, Huy Duong: Indexing Methods for Video Content with examples to Basketball Media 8 May 22 Knowledge Interaction Processes and methods that help humans utilize computer-based knowledge more effectively, especially in interactive sessions: Delphi method, process modeling, Semantic Web, RSS, Wiki.
Milestone Week 8: Final Version Reviewer feedback to draft version Erik Kitson, Jeff LaBarge: Technology as Catalyst for Social InnovationRyan Murphy: 3D Data Acquisition Using Hybrid Techniques (postponed) May 24 Nathan Schurr (Cal Poly Alumn, now at USC)PhD Thesis on Intelligent Agents Intimate Transactions Usability Evaluation: Andrew Tsui, Cory White: Machine Learning and Knowledge Management Keith Armstrong, David Gillette Intimate Transactions Usability TestingRyan Reck: VE interaction techniques (postponed)9 May 29 Constrained Access Dealing with knowledge under constrained access conditions, such as
mobile devices, voice-only, limited attention, or disabilities.
Peer evaluation of project final version Daniel Wang: Knowledge Representation and Human UnderstandingNeil Hayek: Retaining Knowledge from Software ProjectsSteven Eberling: Computer-Suppported Argumentation May 31 Final version paperNgan Phan, Khang Duong: Usability Study of Common Social Bookmarking SystemsAdam Dukovich: Usability of Design Patterns for Students: Approaches To Make Design Patterns Easier To Understand In The Classroom10 June 5 Ethical and Social Dimensions of Knowledge Consequences on societies and individuals of access (or lack thereof) to knowledge;
intellectual property and copyright issues;
case studies and trends of computer-based knowledge management
in different contexts: commercial, educational,
informally organized (e.g. Web communities)
Project Presentations, Final Documentation Reviewer feedback to paper final version Project Presentations Project Presentations June 7 Feedback and Evaluation forms Project Presentations Project Presentations June 8 CSC Poster Session CSC Poster Session