Title :
Useful oblivion versus Information Overload in e-learning examples in the context of Wiki systems
Author :
Stickel, Christian ; Holzinger, Andreas ; Ebner, Martin
Author_Institution :
Social Learning, Graz Univ. of Technol., Graz
Abstract :
Information overload refers to the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic. We present a novel approach of filtering, adapting and visualizing content inside a Wiki knowledge base. Thereby we follow the question of how to optimize the process of learning, with respect to shorter time and higher quality, in face of increasing and changing information. Our work adopts a consolidation mechanism of the human memory, in order to reveal and shape key structures of a Wiki hypergraph. Our hypothesis so far is that visualization of these structures enables a more efficient learning.
Keywords :
Web sites; computer aided instruction; data visualisation; graph theory; information filtering; Wiki hypergraph; Wiki knowledge base system; e-learning example; information filtering; information overload; information visualization; Biomedical informatics; Cognitive science; Documentation; Electronic learning; Filtering; Humans; Neural networks; Shape; Statistics; Visualization; E-Learning; Information Visualization; Mental models; Neural Networks; Wiki;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology Interfaces, 2008. ITI 2008. 30th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Dubrovnik
Print_ISBN :
978-953-7138-12-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1330-1012
DOI :
10.1109/ITI.2008.4588402