Talk by Prof Martin J. Eppler - December 16th, 10:30, Room RLC D1 661

In this talk I give an introduction and overview on the field of Collaborative Knowledge Visualization. I discuss a few of the key concepts in this interdisciplinary domain and show examples of our experimental research, as well as practical applications.

The key scientific concepts discussed in this area are: scaffold & affordance, boundary/inscription/ epistemic object, and diagrammatic reasoning (incl. the notion of visual free ride). Our experiments regard team ideation, decision making, and experience sharing. The practical applications include our software suite en.lets-focus.com, our card set collabcards.com and our sketchingtatwork.com toolset.

Bio: Martin J. Eppler, Prof. Dr. is a full professor of media and communication management at the University of St. Gallen, where he is also the managing director of the institute for media and communication management. He conducts research on collaboration, creeativity, knowledge management, knowledge visualization, and knowledge communication. He has been a guest professor at various universities in Asia, America and Europe. He studied communications, business administration and social sciences at Boston University, the Paris Graduate School of Management, and the Universities of Geneva and St.Gallen. He has published more than 120 academic papers (in journals such as Organization Studies, LRP, Harvard Business Manager, IEEE Transactions, TIS, EMJ, IV, and others) and 13 books, mostly on knowledge communication, innovation, management, and visualization.