Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects

@incollection{citeulike:1624368, abstract = {People such as R\&D engineers rely on communication with their colleagues to acquire information, get trusted opinion, and as impetus for creative discourse. This study investigates the prospects of using bibliometric citation techniques for mapping and visualizing data about the oral communication patterns of a group of R\&D engineers. Representatives of the R\&D engineers find the resulting maps – we term them personometric maps – rich in information about who knows what and potentially useful as tools for finding people with specific competences. Maps of old projects are seen as particularly useful because old projects are important entry points in searches for information and the maps retain information indicative of people’s competences, information that is otherwise not readily available. Face-to-face communications and communications via phone, email, and other systems are more ephemeral than scholarly citations, and (semi-)automated means of data collection are critical to practical application of personometric analyses.}, author = {Skovvang, Morten and Elb{\ae}k, Mikael K. and Hertzum, Morten }, citeulike-article-id = {1624368}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11495222\_12}, journal = {Information Context: Nature, Impact, and Role}, keywords = {expert, finding, network, social, visualization}, pages = {141--154}, posted-at = {2007-09-05 15:54:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R\&D Projects}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11495222\_12}, year = {2005} }

TY - CHAP ID - citeulike:1624368 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1624368 N2 - People such as R&D engineers rely on communication with their colleagues to acquire information, get trusted opinion, and as impetus for creative discourse. This study investigates the prospects of using bibliometric citation techniques for mapping and visualizing data about the oral communication patterns of a group of R&D engineers. Representatives of the R&D engineers find the resulting maps – we term them personometric maps – rich in information about who knows what and potentially useful as tools for finding people with specific competences. Maps of old projects are seen as particularly useful because old projects are important entry points in searches for information and the maps retain information indicative of people’s competences, information that is otherwise not readily available. Face-to-face communications and communications via phone, email, and other systems are more ephemeral than scholarly citations, and (semi-)automated means of data collection are critical to practical application of personometric analyses. JF - Information Context: Nature, Impact, and Role EP - 154 TI - Personometrics: Mapping and Visualizing Communication Patterns in R&D Projects SP - 141 KW - expert KW - finding KW - network KW - social KW - visualization AU - Skovvang, Morten AU - Elbæk, Mikael AU - Hertzum, Morten PY - 2005/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11495222_12 ER -