Abstract

Noctua is a web tool to assist in Knowledge Acquisition and Collaborative Knowledge Construction processes. Noctua has an innovation: a Virtual Catalyst designed to facilitate the task of eliciting and validating knowledge. The Virtual Catalyst queries participants, proposing new knowledge, seeking confirmation to the knowledge already elicited, and showing conflicting opinions. The Virtual Catalyst takes into account participants' profiles in order to automatically ask them questions related to each one's field of knowledge or interest. This paper presents Noctua and its Virtual Catalyst. The tool was submitted to experimentation and the analysis of the results showed that the primary goal of increasing the rate of knowledge construction was achieved (up to 144

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68T30, 68T50, 68U35

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@article{cai-2003,
  author  = {Emerson Cabrera Paraiso and Geraldo Boz Junior and Milton Pires Ramos and Gilson Yukio Sato and Cesar A. Tacla},
  title   = {Improving Knowledge Acquisition in Collaborative Knowledge Construction Tool with Virtual Catalyst},
  journal = {Computing and Informatics},
  volume  = {35},
  number  = {4},
  pages   = {914--940},
  year    = {2016},
  issn    = {1335-9150},
  url     = {https://cai.type.sk/content/2016/4/improving-knowledge-acquisition-in-collaborative-knowledge-construction-tool-with-virtual-catalyst/}
}
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