Expert Finding as Informal Learning Support: Competency-Aware and Socially-Aware

Simone Braun	Universität Karlsruhe
Andreas Schmidt	Universität Karlsruhe

Abstract: Expert finding goes beyond identifying and locating experts. We see expert finding embedded into informal learning activities where personal and social context plays a decisive role (e.g. looking for colleagues to ask for help). That means on social context level, we need social relationship models describing not only objective but also subjective opinions about relationships' quality. On personal context level, we need shared competence models describing experts and the purpose of interacting with them. With this approach we make expert finding competency- and socially-aware.

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Citation: Simone Braun, Andreas Schmidt, "Expert Finding as Informal Learning Support: Competency-Aware and Socially-Aware." First International ExpertFinder Workshop, Berlin, Germany, January 16, 2007