Improving Knowledge Acquisition in Collaborative Knowledge Construction Tool with Virtual Catalyst

Authors

  • Emerson Cabrera Paraiso Post-Graduate Program on Informatics, Pontifcia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba
  • Geraldo Boz Junior Post-Graduate Program on Informatics, Pontifcia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba
  • Milton Pires Ramos Parana Institute of Technology, Curitiba
  • Gilson Yukio Sato Federal University of Technology, Parana, Curitiba
  • Cesar A. Tacla Federal University of Technology, Parana, Curitiba

Keywords:

Knowledge acquisition, collaborative knowledge construction, virtual catalyst

Abstract

Noctua is a web tool to assist in Knowledge Acquisition and Collaborative Knowledge Construction processes. Noctua has an innovation: a Virtual Catalyst designed to facilitate the task of eliciting and validating knowledge. The Virtual Catalyst queries participants, proposing new knowledge, seeking confirmation to the knowledge already elicited, and showing conflicting opinions. The Virtual Catalyst takes into account participants' profiles in order to automatically ask them questions related to each one's field of knowledge or interest. This paper presents Noctua and its Virtual Catalyst. The tool was submitted to experimentation and the analysis of the results showed that the primary goal of increasing the rate of knowledge construction was achieved (up to 144 % in the rate of knowledge creation), and also showed some unexpected beneficial outcomes.

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Published

2017-02-07

How to Cite

Cabrera Paraiso, E., Boz Junior, G., Ramos, M. P., Sato, G. Y., & Tacla, C. A. (2017). Improving Knowledge Acquisition in Collaborative Knowledge Construction Tool with Virtual Catalyst. COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS, 35(4), 914–940. Retrieved from https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/2003