September 2010
Our new visualization guide "Sketching at Work: Visual Problem Solving and Communication" has just been pre-released and can be ordered at www.sketchingatwork.com. You can find an online version of this guide to visual collaboration for a limited time only below.
August 2010
Sabrina Bresciani and Martin Eppler won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE 14th International Information Visualization Conference (IV10) in London on July 29th for their study of Managers' perceptions of business visualization methods.
June 2010
We are hosting a special symposium on risk visualization and communication at the yearly SRA (Society for Risk Analysis) Conference in London on June 21st, more information can be found here.
Friederike Hoffmann and Martin Eppler have given a speech on Business Model Innovation at the annual Swiss Telecom Summit (you can find more information here).
Our team has submitted a total of six research papers to the IEEE Information Visualization (IV10) Conference and to the 10th International Knowledge Management Conference I-Know, all of which were positively reviewed and accepted. You can find their titles in the publication section.
May 2010
Aalto University published a synopsis of our course on Knowledge
Communication and Visualization at the Helsinki School of Economics
on its homepage.
Our Paper on Visualization for Knowledge Sharing was accepted by the
Academy of Management Conference. Alice Comi is spending a research
semester at the University of St. Gallen.
February 2010
Sabrina Bresciani returned from a NSF stay at the National University of Singapore and Martin Eppler from a Guest Professorship in Finland at the Helsinki School of Economics / Aalto University.
January 2010
The call for papers of our Sixth Knowledge Visualization Event in
London has now been released. You can find further information here.
The next knowledge visualization management seminar will take place
in Zurich on April 9-10. It will focus on the use of Visualization
for Strategy and Innovation. You can find the seminar description
and the registration form here.
Contact Roland.Pfister@unisg.ch
for further information.
November 2009
Martin Eppler presented his and Andreas Schmeil's experimental research
on collaboration in Second Life as the opening talk at the Media,
Knowledge & Education - Exploring visualized and collaborative
knowledge spaces Conference at Innsbruck University. The slides can
be found here.
Friederike Hoffmann joined Prof. Günter Faltin and Prof. Sven Ripsas for the facilitation of the "Citizen Workshop" on November 7th in Berlin at this year's Vision Summit. The main goals of the workshop were to present successful social entrepreneurs and their business models, as well as to connect and educate future entrepreneurs. You find more information here.
Andreas Schmeil received a full scholarship by the Swiss National Science Foundation for a 12-month research stay in Canada and the USA: starting in May 2010, he will be a visiting researcher at the ACT Lab (Simon Fraser University) in Vancouver for 3 months, then at the Palo Alto Research Center (formerly Xerox PARC) for 9 months.
October 2009
Interdisciplinary Swiss National Science Foundation Project won
The interdisciplinary research project we have proposed to the NSF
(in cooperation with the University of Berne and ETH's WSL) has been
funded and will start on November 1st. In the project we will examine
the knowledge communication between science and practice and explore
knowledge management and visualization approaches for Risk Management.
September 2009
Jeanne Mengis was elected as Professor of Managerial Communication at the University of Lugano. We also welcome our new team members Friederike Hoffmann and Roland Pfister who focus on visual knowledge communication in management (see team section).
August 2009
Our (Bresciani/Eppler) managerial visualization experiment paper has been accepted by the prestigious and highly selective US IEEE InfoVis 09 conference and by the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. In the paper and respective experiments we were able to demonstrate the positive productivity impact of visualization on knowledge sharing in groups.
July 2009
Our study on Risk Visualization has been published in the Journal
'Risk Management'. You can find the abstract here.
Martin Eppler will be the Chair of Media and Communication Management
at the University of St. Gallen as of August 1st 2009. As of next
month, knowledge-communication.org will be hosted both by USI and
the University of St. Gallen - Institute for media and communications
management.
June 2009
Martin Eppler has been elected a Guest Professor of Knowledge Communication
and Visualization for January-February 2010 at the Helsinki School
of Economics, Finland. He will be giving a Speech to the Danish Journalist
Assocation in Copenhagen this August, see: http://www.journalistforbundet.dk/sw87494.asp.
Alice Comi will present her work on Visualizing Organizational Competences
at the I-know 09 (see a compilation of examples at our gallery).
May 2009
Martin Eppler will give a speech at this year's Swiss Telecommunication Summit on the "Visual Web". You can find the program here. He will also give a keynote address at the European LSP Conference on Knowledge Communication Research, you can find more information here.
April 2009
Our study on knowledge communication between decision makers and
experts has now been published in the April edition of the Harvard
Business Manager.
The Knowledge Communication group expands to the University of St.
Gallen where we have two open assistant/PhD positions available, see
http://www.mcm.unisg.ch/content/view/328/102/.
March 2009
Martin Eppler has given an invited lecture on Global Managerial Communication
at the LUISS University Business School in Rome, Italy.
Our IABC Research Report on Managing Information Overload in Business
Communication has now been published on the iabc.com website. There
is also an audio podcast on the report at: http://blogs.iabc.com/cafe2go/.
You can download the first six pages of the report here.
A short video from the report presentation can be found here.
February 2009
Sabrina Bresciani has given an invited talk on Knowledge Visualization at the 'Scent of Information Symposium' at the Art University of Linz (Austria). The program can be found here: http://www.khs-linz.ac.at/News.2098+M5cef5d35644.0.html