This article discusses pragmatic ways of classifying knowledge maps to give an overview of their application contexts and formats. In the article, we show where and how the term knowledge map has been previously used and what criteria must be met in a sound and useful knowledge map classification that can support knowledge management processes. Various classification principles are presented an...

GRAME est une institution musicale dont la vocation principale est le développement et le rayonnement de la création musicale contemporaine. Créé à Lyon en 1982, GRAME est en convention pluri-annuelle avec l’Etat, la Ville de Lyon et la région Rhône-Alpes, mais reçoit également le soutien de la SACEM, de la SPEDIDAM, du FCM, de l’Institut Français, de l’ANR, de l’Union européenne. GRAME a été l...

Two experiments investigated the cognitive consequences of acquiring different aspects of a novel visual scene. Subjects were presented with map-like configurations, in which subsets of elements shared perceptual or action-related features. As observed previously, feature sharing facilitated judging the spatial relationship between elements, suggesting the integration of spatial and non-spatial...

This research article explores the social issues of subjectivity in innovation management, by discussing the significance that communities’ symbolic interpretation has on their sensemaking and engagement in informal innovation communities. This article presents our research findings which suggest the positive contribution that cognitive mapping of communities’ sensemaking can have an aid to und...

This research deals with two issues for learner modeling: uncertainty and multiple perspectives. Hence, it proposes a process called cognitive mapping to acquire and describe objects of a domain of study, and set fuzzy-causal relationships among them. Objects are characterized as linguistic variables that are instantiated by linguistic terms; whereas relations are outlined by means of fuzzyrule...

Yeap and Jefferies [1] show how a description of each local space is computed and by realising how these local spaces are connected, a cognitive map of one’s environment will emerge. However, roboticists have shown that it is difficult to compute such a map with precise metric information. In this paper, we show some preliminary ideas as to how a qualitative map could be constructed out of loca...

Wayfinding is part of everyday life. This study concentrates on the development of a conceptual model of human navigation in the U.S. Interstate Highway Network. It proposes three different levels of conceptual understanding that constitute the cognitive map: the Planning Level, the Instructional Level, and the Driver Level. This paper formally defines these three levels and examines the concep...

In 2002, women comprised 46.6% of the overall U.S. workforce; however, the percentage of women in the Information Technology (IT) workforce in 2002 was only 34.9%. In 1996, the percentage of women in the IT workforce was 41%. To help explain the declining and overall disproportionate number of women in IT, we designed an in-depth study to analyze the individual cognitions of women working in IT...

Educational researchers need to exchange and compare their learnerinteraction data in order to benefit the learning science community as a whole. In order to support this, we propose accessing data in different repositories via a mediator component that maps generic queries to the specific format of a target repository. This approach is supported by a common ontology, and we illustrate the begi...