Compendium's most recent application has been in assisting the 'planning cells' who rescue isolated personnel in conflict situations. The Compendium visual modelling tool is designed to bring together diverse perspectives and arguments to support real time collaborative sensemaking. In personnel recovery, Compendium has been trialled as a next generation tool for assessing the political, economic…
World Vision International is a global relief and development agency working in some of the most deprived areas of the world. KMi has been working with WVI to help them analyse feedback from a global consultation on its programmes. At the heart of this analysis was the Compendium software tool, which provides a visual sensemaking…
An historic milestone has been reached with the release of the source code for Compendium, KMi's widely used semantic hypertext concept mapping tool. This is coupled with the release of v1.3.04 which enables users to define their own node and link types, and annotate images. Compendium has an interesting history which has brought us to…
Douglas Engelbart (inventor of much of today’s personal computing) accompanied by Frode Heglund (UCL) spent 23 June with Simon Buckingham Shum, demonstrating technologies and discussing the overlap in their visions of future computing infrastructure for knowledge work. Engelbart is recipient of the US National Medal of Technology "for creating the foundations of personal computing including…
If humans land on Mars in 20-30 years time, how will they work with their support teams on Earth? KMi has been supporting scientific collaboration in a 2 week Mars-Earth simulation mission, trialling Compendium and BuddySpace across time and space… Research scientists at the OUs Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) were immersed in a deep simulation…
Praise for ScholOnto and argument visualization resesarch at KMI in helping to tackle computational philosophy challenges Some of Philosophy's Next Jobs, Almost All of Them Computerised Robert Horn (Stanford University) Abstract This talk is based on seven assertions. I will assert that philosophy can not proceed effectively in the 21st Century unless it adopts the…
Simon Buckingham Shum received a grant from Tokyo University to spend a week at RCAST, the Research Centre for Advanced Science and Technology. Simon was hosted at the Knowledge Interaction Design Lab by Prof. Kumiyo Nakakoji, Japan's leading researcher in Human-Computer Interaction. Simon gave an invited seminar, spent time with PhD students, and in depth…
The OU and KMI were represented last week at the International Conference on Open & Online Learning (ICOOL03), where I was invited to give a keynote address. Held at the University on the beautiful island of Mauritius, ICOOL attracted a wide range of delegates from all over the world. A distinctive feature of ICOOL was…
KMi (Simon Buckingham Shum, Al Selvin and Michelle Bachler) is a founding member of the Compendium Institute, a virtual network to support and develop Compendium as an approach to visual modelling, collaborative sensemaking and group memory. KMi leads the software development of the tool (currently funded by the e-Science CoAKTinG project), and is pleased to…
A JIME submission was made by Simon Buckingham Shum to the Royal Society Working Group on communicating the results of new scientific research. The Royal Society has set up a working group to carry out a study on best practice in communicating the results of new scientific research to the public. The study has been…
