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2007)
Joana Fernandes; Carla Pereira; Manuel Fernando Silva; António Lucas Soares
This paper aims at presenting the preliminary results of a research work that
seeks to understand the users' response to semantic based technologies, in the
context o/, enterprise sponsored virtual communities. The research follows a
qualitative methodolog}' based on an action research approach. It particlllar~v
focuses on the socio-cognitive processes that underlie usel:~' learning and
acquisition methods when training and interacting with a new knowledge
management approach based on semantically enabled technologies in a
collaborative, and sometimes virtual. learning/working environment. The
outcomes of this research are expected to provide an assessment frameworkfor
a deeper level understanding of the cognition process in what concerns the
evolution of individual~~ knowledge. opinions. beliefs. and thoughts abuut
untology based systems.