Gebundenes Buch

Applied Concept Mapping

Capturing, Analyzing, and Organizing Knowledge

Herausgeber: Moon, Brian; Novak, Joseph; Hoffman, Robert R.

Beschreibung

Supported by business application case studies, this book offers an accessible introduction to the theory, methods, and application of Concept Mapping in business and government. The case studies illustrate applications across a range of industries, including engineering, product development, defense, and healthcare. The authors provide access to a free download of CmapTools, courtesy of the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, to enable readers to create and share their own Concept Maps. The book includes examples from the U.S., Canada, Australia, Spain, Brazil, Scotland, and The Netherlands.

Autor

Brian M. Moon is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Perigean Technologies LLC, Fredericksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, Psychology, from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A., and a Master of Science, Sociology, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, London, U.K. From 1996 to 2000, Mr. Moon provided social science support to legal defense teams. He joined the staff of Klein Associates Inc. in 2000 to apply naturalistic methods to the solution of problems in software engineering, organizational and workplace design, and training. In 2007, Brian founded Perigean Technologies with his wife, Alyson, to help organizations improve through smarter use of their own knowledge and to help improve the way knowledge moves through organizations. Perigean Technologies clients have included Westinghouse Electric Company, the New York Power Authority, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, TNO, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, and Sandia National Laboratories. Mr. Moon has served on the Program Committee for International Conferences on Concept Mapping (CMC 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010), and is the Owner of the Applied Concept Mapping Group at LinkedIn. He has published extensively on topics concerning knowledge management and methodology. Robert R. Hoffman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), Pensacola, Florida, U.S.A. He is recognized as one of the world leaders in the field of cognitive systems engineering and Human-Centered Computing (HCC). He is a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and a Fulbright Scholar. His Ph.D. is in experimental psychology from the University of Cincinnati, where he received McMicken Scholar, Psi Chi, and Delta Tau Kappa Honors. Following a Postdoctoral Associateship at the Center for Research on Human Learning at the University of Minn

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 380
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 700g
• ISBN-13: 9781439828601
• ISBN-10: 1439828601
• Artikelnr.: 30165824