Enhancing On-Line Conferencing Ba with Human-Machine Interaction CorMap Analysis

2. On-Line Conferencing Ba (Olcb)

Japanese Professor Nonaka has once adopted a Japanese word ba, to refer to a shared space which is of physical, virtual or even mental context, to achieve the spiral SECI process of knowledge conversion. An academic conference is a platform for information and knowledge exchange, through which the organizer actually provides a physical ba for dynamic knowledge sharing and new idea emergence. In adoption of the idea of ba, the on-line conferencing ba (OLCB) is designed for conferecing affairs as a supplementary virtual platform which is unhindered by time and space. OCLB engages in idea exchange, knowledge sharing and inspiration emergence by integrating the qualitative meta-synthesis technologies, CorMap and iView to conduct the conference mining for hidden patterns and setting up a forum for users discussion. CorMap and iView analysis are proposed by meta-synthesis and knowledge science research group in Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, have been applied to textual data analysis for diverse problems, such as group discussion process analysis, conference mining, experts’ knowledge essence elicitation and social psychological analysis, etc. (Tang, 2007, 2008, 2009; Tang & Zhang, 2007; Tang, Zhang, & Wang, 2008). After carrying out both CorMap and iView analysis toward the fundamental conference data, OLCB pushes the visualized mining results in pictures to users.