tinyarm @ matel ws

TiNYARMThis is Not Yet Another Reference Manager

Gonzalo Parra, Joris Klerkx, Erik DuvalUniversity of Leuven

MATEL WS @ ECTEL 2012 § September 19, 2012

Information overload..

Researcher

Referencesto yourwork

Call forPapers

Publishedarticles

Latestresearch

Fundingoportunities

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Researcher


Call forPapers

Publishedarticles

Latestresearch

Fundingoportunities

... ...

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Peder Olesen Larsen and Markus von Ins, The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index, ScientometricsVolume 84, Number 3, 575-603

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...or filter failure?

Researcher


Call forPapers

Publishedarticles

Latestresearch

Fundingoportunities

... ...

...

......

Peder Olesen Larsen and Markus von Ins, The rate of growth in scientific publication and the decline in coverage provided by Science Citation Index, ScientometricsVolume 84, Number 3, 575-603

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HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE READING THE RIGHT

THING?

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE READING THE RIGHT

THING?

... HAVE YOU NEVER MISSED A RELEVANT PAPER?

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PAPERS HAVE YOU READ THE

LAST MONTH?

HOW MANY PAPERS YOUR COLLEAGUES READ THE

LAST MONTH?

HOW MANY PAPERS YOUR COLLEAGUES READ THE

LAST MONTH?

... AND ABOUT WHAT?

DO YOU SUGGEST PAPERS TO COLLEAGUES?

DO YOU SUGGEST PAPERS TO COLLEAGUES?

... HOW?

How social networks approaches can be leveraged to enable researchers to be aware of the activities of their peers?

TINYARMSocial media to filter relevant content*

* Gibs, J. Social Media: The next great gateway for content discovery.

https://atinyarm.appspot.com/

https://atinyarm.appspot.com


THIS IS NOT A REFERENCE MANAGER

•Mendeley: organize, read, annotate your research

• Bibsonomy: social bookmarking and sharing

• CiteUlike: search, organize and share references

• ResearchGate: connect, collaborate and discover

THIS IS NOT A REFERENCE MANAGER

•Mendeley: organize, read, annotate your research

• Bibsonomy: social bookmarking and sharing

• CiteUlike: search, organize and share references

• ResearchGate: connect, collaborate and discover

TiNYARM: sharing and motivate reading activities

PERSONAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

GAMIFICATION

awareness

(self) reflection

sense making

impact

data

questions

answers

behaviour change

COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICEAwareness Motivation Collaboration

Undergrads +/- √ +/-

PhD students √√ √ √

Postdoctoral researchers &

Professors√ +/- √√

CURRENT RESULTS• 56 active users out of 220 registered users

• 1196 papers (435 read, 463 skimmed, 298 toRead)

✓Simple-to-use reading list (PIM)

✓Provides notion of current interests of a group

- Usable but not completely...

- Gamification components were not convincing

TRY our tool...

GIVE feedback...

SHARE with others...

https://atinyarm.appspot.com/



QUESTIONS?SUGGESTIONS?

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http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.be/more/index.php?id=parra_g


THANKS!

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