Interruptions have commonly been viewed as negative and as something for managers to control or limit. In this paper, I explore the relationship between interruptions and acquisition of routines—a form of knowledge—by teams. Recent research suggests that interruptions may play an important role in changing organizational routines, and as such may influence knowledge transfer activities. Results...

In the digital age with a wide array of information never before so openly and easily accessible by the general public, students are allowed to access and reference other people’s ideas and works in their learning processes more than ever before in human history. This paper seeks to explore how learning from others in an educational setting could possibly impact on students’ creativity, and mor...

In order to help the knowledge engineer and the expert during knowledge acquisition phase, the ACACIA Group is working on a knowledge acquisition methodology and tool (KATEMES) allowing knowledge acquisition from multiple experts, exploiting the specificities of design problems and preparing the assistance to the end-user and the quality of explanations he will be provided with. This paper desc...

The management of knowledge and know-how becomes more and more important in organizations. Building corporate memories for conserving and sharing knowledge has become a rather common practice. However, we often forget that the efficiency of these activities is strictly connected to the appropriation capacities and learning of the organizational actors. It is through this learning that new skill...

Learning is more than knowledge acquisition; it often involves the active participation of the learner in a variety of knowledgeand skills-based learning and training activities. Interactive multimedia technology can support the variety of interaction channels and languages required to facilitate interactive learning and teaching. A conceptual architecture for interactive educational multimedia...

Successful new product development (NPD) activities need high amounts of new knowledge from a variety of different sources. When the NPD activities are seen as a process of knowledge accumulation, two knowledge processes are identified: knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. This study focuses on the process of knowledge acquisition from external knowledge sources in the NPD of SMEs. ...

This paper presents several industrial applications of ML in the context of their effort to solve the "KAML problem", i.e., the problem of merging knowledge acquisition and machine learning techniques. Case-based reasoning is a possible alternative to the problem of acquiring highly compiled expert knowledge, but it raises also many new problems that must be solved before really efficient imple...

For complex perceptual tasks that are characterized by object occlusion and non stationarity recognition systems with adaptive signal processing front ends have been developed These systems rely on hand crafted symbolic object models which constitutes a knowledge acquisition bottleneck We propose an approach to automate object model acquisition that relies on the detection of signal processing ...

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