Task-based process know-how reuse and proactive information delivery in TaskNavigator

  • Authors:
  • Harald Holz;Oleg Rostanin;Andreas Dengel;Takeshi Suzuki;Kaoru Maeda;Katsumi Kanasaki

  • Affiliations:
  • DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Ricoh Co., Koishikawa, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan;Ricoh Co., Koishikawa, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan;Ricoh Co., Koishikawa, Bunkyoku, Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Knowledge management approaches for weakly-structured, adhoc knowledge work processes need to be lightweight, i.e., they cannot rely on high upfront modeling efforts. This paper presents TaskNavigator, a novel prototype to support weakly-structured processes by integrating a standard task list application with a state-of-the-art document classification system. The resulting system allows for a task-oriented view on office workers' personal knowledge spaces in order to realize a proactive and contextsensitive information support during daily, knowledge-intensive tasks. Moreover, TaskNavigator supports process know-how reuse by proactively suggesting similar tasks or relevant process models, based on textual similarities. Finally, we report on a feasibility test and a case study that have been conducted in order to evaluate the system in the context of daily research task management and software requirements analysis.