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Acceptance of technology-based conceptual artefacts in knowledge communities: applications to EO Image Information Mining

Type of funding:

Funded by DLR, DAAD

Duration:

2013 - 2017

Involved staff members:

Description:

While addressing applications involving Information Mining in large data collection and EO images, it is of utmost importance to understand and model the behavior of users who interact with high complexity technologies and collaborate within interdisciplinary communities. In such cases, interdisciplinary collaboration is enabled by the joint use of conceptual artefacts (e.g., negotiable concept definitions), immaterial objects used in community practice to describe the environment and predict its evolution. Community members with different professional backgrounds and expertise levels may use conceptual artefacts generatively (while adding information to the artefact), or receptively (while searching, finding and using information that is included in the artefact). Previous psychological research suggests that community members’ use intentions and their actual artefact usage are influenced by their perceived role definition within the community. However, little is known about how to establish role definitions in communities, and about how to train them.

Goal and research questions:

Against this background, the proposed study will be contextualized in a EO Image Information Mining community of practice and will aim at (1) examining the influence of perceived role definitions on the individual use intention and actual usage of a specific conceptual artefact, and (2) conceiving, developing and evaluating a training scenario that increases community members’ artefact acceptance. The significance of the study for scientific practice comprises the improvement of interdisciplinary communication within researchers’ communities. At conceptual level, the study should contribute to a deeper understanding of knowledge reification and conceptual artefact acceptance in communities of practice.

Cooperation partner:

Prof. Dr. Mihai Datcu, Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Luft- und Raumforschung, Fernerkundungszentrum (DLR-DFD), Oberpfaffenhofen

Publications

  • Murillo Montes de Oca, A., Bahmanyar, R., Nistor, N., & Datcu, M. (2017). Earth observation image semantic bias: A collaborative user annotation approach. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 10(6), 2462-2477. doi:10.1109/JSTARS.2017.2697003
  • Bahmanyar, R., Murillo Montes de Oca, A., & Dactu, M. (2015). The Semantic Gap: An Exploration of User and Computer Perspectives in Earth Observation Images. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, 12(10), 2046-2050. doi:10.1109/LGRS.2015.2444666 [online]