Knowledge is crucial in our society and fundamentally created by individuals. Knowledge workers require support for authoring, finding and reminding, knowledge reuse, and collaboration. We present personal semantic wikis as supporting technology for knowledge workers, outline an architecture, and introduce our prototype implementation.

The MITRE corporation is a geographically distributed company of knowledge workers working on projects either related by the same customer or by the problems and technologies being addressed. MITRE early on recognized the power of information technology to enhance the effectiveness of each of its staff with knowledge sharing tools. Early deployment of an Intranet with novel functions has promot...

Knowledge workers work on many different tasks and must often switch between those tasks. In earlier work, we have shown the benefits of automatically capturing contexts for tasks for a specific category of knowledge worker, software programmers. Captured contexts facilitate task switches and reduce information overload by enabling the display of only the information relevant to the task-at-han...

Introduction: Human resources impose a vast expense on health organizations. Therefore, improvement of the productivity of human resources is of considerable concern to executive managers of every country. Methods: In the present study, first, the knowledge workers’ productivity assessment questionnaire was localized. Then, the knowledge workers of the ce...

Objectives and methods: This was an intervention field trial to determine the effects of a nutrition education program (a modudle prepared specifically for the porpose) on the nutritional knowledge and attitude of volunteer Health care workers of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) in city of Tehran in 1999. The study population consisted of 121 female health care workers from four ran...