Learning at the workplace is to a large extent informal. Trainees often need consultations with more experienced colleagues who can answer their questions or demonstrate certain practice. This process is usually very time consuming for the more knowledgeable ones, who often need to repeat their explanations for various trainees. There is a high potential to make this process more efficient by means of technology, especially by using the power of multimedia. In this paper, we present a vision and work in progress for enhancing informal learning at the workplace by using video annotation and video adaptation techniques. This is part of the research and development in the Learning Layers project.

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Informal Learning
at the Workplace
via Adaptive Video
Milos Kravcik, Petru Nicolaescu, Ralf Klamma
Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS)
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
kravcik@dbis.rwth-aachen.de
ProS Workshop, UMAP, Aalborg, Denmark, July 7th, 2014

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Agenda
 Motivation
 Learning Layers project
 Video Annotation
 Adaptive Video Presentation
 Conclusion and future work

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Motivation
 Discussions with stakeholders revealed requirements that
can be solved by using multimedia in workplace scenarios
 How to support informal learning at the workplace by video
annotation and video adaptation techniques?
 Challenge: select scenes relevant in a particular context and
present them accordingly

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EU FP7 Learning Layers Project
 Scaling up Technologies for Informal Learning
in SME Clusters
– http://learning-layers.eu/
 Objectives
– Mobile creation of videos for learning (physical-digital world)
– Tagging video segments for informal learning in communities
(social media layer)
– Scaffolding meaningful learning by exploiting semantic tagging
information (social semantic layer)
 Two regional clusters
– Construction (Germany)
– Healthcare (UK)

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EU FP7 Learning Layers Project

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Video Annotation: Sevianno 2.0
 Annotation types: Place, Object, Agent, Concept, Event

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Adaptive Video Presentation
 Aim: adapt annotated videos according to the current
demands (preferences/terms)
 FOSP Method
– Filter: take only relevant components (segments)
– Order: order them accordingly
– Select: choose from alternative representations
– Present: responsive design

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Conclusion and Future Work
 Aim: Scaling up informal learning at the workplace
 Solution: Collaborative video annotation
 Challenge: Adaptive presentation according to
current context and situational demands