Collective Cognitive Authority: Expertise Location via Social Labeling
Social and Information Networks
2012-04-17 v1 Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract
The problem of knowing who knows what is multi-faceted. Knowledge and expertise lie on a spectrum and one's expertise in one topic area may have little bearing on one's knowledge in a disparate topic area. In addition, we continue to learn new things over time. Each of us see but a sliver of our acquaintances' and co-workers' areas of expertise. By making explicit and visible many individual perceptions of cognitive authority, this work shows that a group can know what its members know about in a relatively efficient and inexpensive manner.
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@article{arxiv.1204.3353,
title = {Collective Cognitive Authority: Expertise Location via Social Labeling},
author = {Terrell G. Russell},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3353},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
Presented at Collective Intelligence conference, 2012 (arXiv:1204.2991), 8 pages, 7 figures