PKM - 1st Workshop on Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)

Knowledge Management (KM) deals with creating and exchanging knowledge within groups of persons in organisational contexts. The potentials and needs of the individual are often not in the focus of KM efforts, although obviously the individual as knowledge bearer, -user and -creator is naturally the most essential element of knowledge management. The main goal of PKM is make the individual more productive - and thereby also the organisation as a whole.
PKM investigates the use of methods and tools to amplify the abilities of the individual to knowledge worker.

Typical tasks of knowledge work include recalling previously learned knowledge faster (or at all) when it is required, modelling personal knowledge and beliefs with external modeling tools to derive new insights, and dealing with large quantities or with high complexity. Typical management problems in PKM are e.g. time and task management, matching work habits with fluctuations of personal productivity, investing time into personal learning and PKM improvements but also keeping the work-life balance.

Research questions are: How can an individual effectively and efficiently use external tools to tackle these challenges? How can the individual support, structure and improve his personal knowledge management? How can the conflict between personal goals (e.g. motivation) and the goals of an organisation (e.g. efficient knowledge sharing, productivity) be tackled or even resolved?.

Topics of Interest

• Foundational questions such as
• theoretical foundations of PKM (e.g. from cognitive psychology, cognitive ergonomics, etc.),
• extension of established KM-methods with PKM-specific aspects,
• results from work sciences about characteristics of and potential for support of individual knowledge work,
• legal questions (e.g. which knowledge must be shared or may not be shared, privacy issues arising from user observation by tools)
• relations of PKM to related topics (e. g. ePortfolio and competence/skill management and development),
• methods for self-management and PKM key competencies (e.g. time management, task management, stress management, social networking).
• Methods and tools such as
• those for personal knowledge articulation (e.g. knowledge mapping, editable visualisations, step-wise formalisation),
• personal wikis, semantics desktop, personal storage and search solutions,
• extending PIM tools and methods for PKM, creativity tools and personal idea management,
• innovative use of new technologies (e.g. mobile devices, speech recognition, ePaper),
• the link from personal to shared knowledge models,
• tools for computer-supported personal work (CSPW) in contrast to and combination with CSCW.
• Applications and case studies such as
• long-term studies,
• lab experiments,
• products and best practices,
• evaluation of personal knowledge work and supporting tools

Workshop Organisation

• Dr. Andreas Abecker, FZI Karlsruhe, lastname@fzi.de
• Max Völkel, FZI Karlsruhe, lastname@fzi.de
• Heiko Haller, FZI Karlsruhe, lastname@fzi.de

Program Committee

Prof. Marco Bettoni-de Vries, Fernfachhochschule Schweiz (CH)
Dr. Ernst Biesalski, EnBW AG, Karlsruhe (D)
Magdalena Böttger, netvibes.com, München (D)
Lilia Efimova, Telematica Instituut, Enschede (NL)
Ludger van Elst, DFKI GmbH Kaiserslautern (D)
Anja Flicker, Reinisch GmbH Karlsruhe, (D)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Güldenberg, WU Wien (A) confirmation pending
Dr. Siegfried Handschuh, DERI Galway (IE)
Prof. Dr. Martin Eppler, Universität Lugano (CH)
Dr. Claudia Müller, Universität Potsdam (D)
Dr. Eyal Oren, VU Amsterdam (NL) confirmation pending
Dr. Uwe Riss, SAP Research, CEC Karlsruhe (D)
Martin Roell, Dresden (D)
Leo Sauermann, DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern (D)
Swaran Sandhu, Universität Luzern (CH) confirmation pending
Dr. Sigmar-Olaf Tergan, ex Institut für Wissensmedien, Tübingen (D)
Denny Vrandecic, Institut AIFB, Universität Karlsruhe (D)
Dr. Reinhard Willfort, innovation (AT)
Ton Zijlstra, independent consultant, Enschede (NL)

Further Information

For further information visit http://personalknowledge.org