Judy Kay - JITT - Just-In-Time Training projects
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JITT - Just-In-Time Training
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This project focuses on the problem of information overload for newcomers in an organisation.
It explores the potential of workflow tools to
drive temporal management of a just-in-time workplace training system, which will deliver personalised
and structured presentation of organisational documents.
The goal is to offer people
- just the right information,
- at just the right time,
- with an appropriate modality
- and presentation form
for the user's preferences, the importance of the information
and the user's current context.
The issues addressed in this project are important to most large enterprises.
This work brings together researchers in three areas:
workflow (Joseph Davis), personalisation (Judy Kay) and
tutoring strategies (Kalina Yacef).
Our long term vision for this work is ambitious,
requiring integration of research from several areas:
- Semantic indexing of the documents so that their access can be made flexible;
- Workflow management and information synchronisation;
- Decision rationale maintenance, work that has largely been done in the context of requirements
definition but is applicable in this work;
- Personalisation of several aspects including the selection of documents, personalisation of the actual
documents, prioritising the documents;
- Information and knowledge sharing;
- Information scheduling and teaching strategies which provide the core of such a system, combining the
other elements.
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Joseph Davis, Sam Holden, Judy Kay, Bob Kummerfeld, Ken Lin, Josiah Poon, Aaron Quigley, Greg Saunders and Kalina Yacef.
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This project is funded by
SITCRC, July 2002 - June 2003.
It serves an important role in exploring the combination of
workflow, personalisation and tutoring strategies for the selection
and ordering of documents within an organisation.
Demonstration System for JITT - Just-In-Time Training
Admin interface
Publications:
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Davis, J, J Kay, B Kummerfeld, K Lin, J Poon, A Quigley, G Saunders, K Yacef, (2003)
Workflow, user modeling and tutoring strategies for just-in-time
document delivery,
Alem L and A McLean,
(eds)
Proceedings of Technologies for Electronic Documents for Supporting
Learning,
Volume X of the AIED2003 Supplementary Proceedings
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664-673.
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Davis, J, J Kay, K Lin, J Poon, A Quigley, K Yacef, (2002)
Workflow Based Just-in-time Training,
Kay, J and J Thom, (eds)
Proceedings ADCS2002, Australian Document Computing Symposium,
16 December 2002, 145-148.
online proceedings
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Kay, J and K Yacef, (2001)
Personalisation in a just-in-time organisational training system,
Proceedings of ADCS'2001, Australian Document Computing Symposium,
83-86.
online proceedings
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Acknowledgement:
This work is currently funded by a grant from
SITCRC, Smart Internet
Technology Cooperative Research Centre.
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Context-aware JITT
Bob Kummerfeld, Joseph Davis, Judy Kay, Josiah Poon, Aaron Quigley, Greg Saunders and Kalina Yacef.
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This is the next stage of the work.
The projects at the right all map into this future direction
for the work.
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An important next step in this work involves integration
of semantic indexing of documents.
This would mean that even when the user asks for information
using terms that were not envisaged by the author of the
document, the system will be able to find them.
There are many ways to tackle this problem.
This project should link with the existing work
on ontologies,
especially Mecurio.
A specialised direction for this work is towards a
meeting assistant.
This work links with the new `smart meeting room',
which will be rich in technology to support meetings.
The goal of this project is to assist the newcomer during
a meeting:
as the participants proceed through the agenda
items, the JITT software tracks the issues relevant to
each agenda item and presents each person with a personalised
collection of organisational information relevant to the
currrent agenda item and their own knowledge.
This project offers many interesting user interface
issues to explore.
The student JITT.
This project shifts from employees to students and their
need to learn about the administrative rules relevant to them.
Like new employees in a large organisation,
students cannot learn all the relevant administrative rules
when they first enter the University.
This is true for all three major groups of students:
undergraduates, coursework postgraduates
and research postgraduates.
This project explores adaptation of the ideas described in
the previous JITT papers, but now applied to the multitude
of things that students should know.
This project offers opportunities to also explore
a range of modalities that are favoured by this
population.
Scrutable sterotypic models of organisational knowledge.
A stereotype allows a very limited amount of information
about a person to serve as a basis for inferences
about a large user model for them.
The good thing about stereotypes is that the user
does not have to give the system much information.
The bad thing is that stereotypes, even if statistically
valid, are broad generalisations about people and parts
are invariably wrong for any one person.
The goal of this project is to build models of the
organisational knowledge in an organisation
and to construct a collection of stereotypes for this.
Then the project involves using VlUM and other
visualisation tools to enable people to check out
theses stereotypic user models.
For an honours project, the models should be modest
in size, with around 100 concepts.
For higher degree students, they should involve larger
models and this would then involve some quite
challenging and interesting issues in structuring the
user model.
Note the long list of people involved in the JITT work.
Many of them will be able to supervise JITT projects in
their own areas of expertise.
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