An Article/Presentation Revising Support System for Transferring Laboratory Knowledge

Abstract

The main topic addressed in this paper is to develop an article/presentation revising support system for transferring experiential knowledge to be shared by a research laboratory in university. Graduate and undergraduate students in the laboratory usually deal with not only formal information such as research articles and presentation documents but also informal information which represents a process of research activities. However, it is difficult for them, especially new students belonging to the laboratory, to acquire such informal information from researchers and other students in the laboratory. In order to resolve this issue, we focus on the concept of laboratory knowledge. The laboratory knowledge is information such as research know-how, which facilitates the research activities for the laboratory members. We then demonstrate the article/presentation revising support system called CommentManager using the Office Open XML format. The system extracts the laboratory knowledge from the informal information accumulated from the laboratory members using.