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

December 2008

Martin Eppler and Jeanne Mengis will give a keynote address at the IABC EuroComm2009 conference on February 9th 2009. In their speech, they will present the results of their International IABC Research Foundation project on Overcoming Information Overload in Business Communication. See: http://www.eurocomm2009.com/ for more details.
 Sabrina Bresciani has won two grants for abroad research stays, first at Harvard University and then at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She will cooperate with professor Subramanian and then with professor Bernard C.Y. Tan at the Department of Information Systems of NUS.

November 2008

Martin Eppler has been invited by the Institute of Scientific & Technical Information of China to present his views on information quality in a keynote speech at the third International Symposium on the Cooperation and Promotion of Information Resources in Science and Technology on November 23rd 2008 in Beijing. He is also giving the keynote address at the 8th annual CNO Panel on November 11th,
as well as at the annual Google Swiss Vision Event.

October 2008

Alice Comi is spending two months as a visiting fellow at Cambridge University. Martin Eppler has given a knowledge visualization tutorial at the first European Visual Thinking Conference in Berlin. He is also giving a knowledge communication seminar at the Helsinki School of Economics on November 20th.

September 2008

Our team has presented two papers at the I-KNOW conference (International conference on Knowledge Management, part of the Triple-I conference) in Graz, Austria. The references and papers can be found in our publication section, while the presentations are available here:

- Schmeil, A., Eppler, M.J.: Collaboration Patterns for Knowledge Sharing and Integration in Second Life: A Classification of Virtual 3D Group Interaction Scripts (pdf presentation). (Best paper selection)

- Bresciani, S., Eppler, M.J.:Do Visualizations Foster Experience Sharing and Retention in Groups? Towards an Experimental Validation (pdf presentation).

We welcome Alice Comi to our team who studies the role of visualization in inter-organizational, innovation-oriented collaboration. One other recent focus of our research regards the role of knowledge communication and visualization in risk management, you can find a first working paper on this topic in our publications section.

July 2008

The Emotional Dimensions of Knowledge and Change Communication: New Issue of ZOE published.
Martin Eppler has been responsible for the latest issue of ZOE, a leading European change management journal, on the role of emotions in change processes. You can find the editorial and table of contents (in German) here.

June 2008

Vizthink Video Podcast on Collaborative Knowledge Visualization.
Martin Eppler gave a video podcast on real-time knowledge visualization with lets-focus at vizthink.com on June 16th. You can watch it below.


Hint: Use the Full Screen Button to see this video in greater detail.
You may also download the audio here...

Position open in our knowledge communication team:
As of September or October 2008 we have an open PhD / research assistant position in our knowledge communication team. See the call (pdf).

May 2008

Jeanne Mengis is the organizer and co-chair of a symposium at this year’s meeting of the Academy of Management in Anaheim, California. Very renowned scholars such as Paul Carlile (Boston University), Deborah Dougherty (Rutgers Business School), Jacky Swan (University of Warwick), Davide Nicolini (University of Warwick), Sue Newell (Bentley College), and Jennifer Whyte (University of Reading) will discuss research on the topic of ‘role of objects in innovating across boundaries’. The presenter symposium will take place Monday, Aug 11. Additional information

The German Institute for International Education Research has elected Martin Eppler as a new member of its scientific board. In that position, he joins seven prestigious colleagues including Prof. Dr. Friedrich Hesse of the Knowledge Media Institute (Univ. of Tübingen) and Prof. Dr. Jaap Scheerens of the University of Twente (Netherlands). The institute is a member of the Leibniz Association and is is one of the largest of its kind. It is regarded as one of the leading European research organizations in the area of new media and education.
You can find a few of the key visuals (lets focus slides) of Martin's recent Keynote Address at the 2008 Encompassing Knowledge Conference at the University of Aarhus here (pdf).

April 2008

The Research Foundation of the International Association of Business Communicators has just awarded Martin Eppler and Jeanne Mengis a research grant and comissioned a study on Communication Solutions Against Information Overload. This will only be the second foundation grant ever going outside of North America (after a grant awarded to the Norwegian School of Management in 2003). The study will focus, among other things, on how visual communication approaches can reduce overload in managerial communication.

March 2008

Our study of knowledge map types has just been published in Wiley's Journal of Process and Knowledge Management, see the publication section.

Martin Eppler has been interviewed by WerbeWoche (Advertising Week) on the future of media, see

February 2008

Communication Summit 2008
Martin Eppler joined Martin Kall (CEO of Tamedia), Ralph Büchi (CEO Springer Switzerland), Daniel Pillard (CEO Ringier Switzerland), Reto Lipp (Swiss TV), and Karin Müller (communication expert) at this year's Communication Summit panel on the future of media (short synopsis in German here)

January 2008

We are hosting the special section on Knowledge Visualization for e-learning and knowledge management at this year's Learntec conference. You can find the programm and the presentations here.

December 2007

Knowledge Visualization Roadshow: Martin Eppler has lectured on knowledge visualization at the Central University of Finance and Economics in Beijing, at the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and at the University of Zurich (download pdf), as well as at Zurich Financial Services and at Bayer. Jeanne Mengis and Sabrina Bresciani have lectured at the University of Freiburg.


October 2007

*Managing and communicating individual knowledge: New book by Reinmann and Eppler.
Our new book on 'Ways of Knowing' and visual methods for knowledge communication and management can now be ordered online or via this fax flyer.
*Media need to become more visual: an Interview (in German) with Martin Eppler in "NZZ am Sonntag" on the future of media. See this link

September 2007

* Collaborative Dimensions Framework presented by Sabrina Bresciani at Triple-i conference.
* Martin Eppler keynote speaker at the Swiss Economist Day 07 on knowledge visualization.
* Our recent visualization work featured in BusinessWeek
* Paper of Mengis and Eppler on knowledge conversations accepted by Organization Studies
* Martin Eppler keynote speaker at Encompassing Knowledge conference and Tripe-I
* Paper by Bresciani, Blackwell and Eppler on collaborative knowledge visualization accepted at HICSS.
*The fourth edition of the O'Reilly Magazine « Release 2.0 » is dedicated to the topic of Information Visualization. Several articles mention our projects lets-focus.com and visual-literacy.org


August 2007: the knowlege communication gallery is online

In the gallery section we showcase a few of the knowledge visualizations that we have developed to facilitate knowledge communication among experts and decision makers.

July 2007: first international visualization summit a success

The first international visualization summit held at ETH Zurich brought together more than one hundred visualization researchers to work on current research topics in the field. Members of our team and of the University of Cambridge facilitated the strategy visualization workshop that focused on roadmapping.