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The Knowledge Communities Research Group is part of the Learning Systems Institute at Florida State University.

We are located in southwest Tallahassee, Florida at Innovation Park, a research and development community. Our office is a five minute drive from the Florida State University main campus and the Tallahassee Regional Airport.
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KCRG News

February 15, 2008
KCRG's Global Usability Knowledge Management (GUKM) project is developing a worldwide database of usability testing labs. Over 230 labs are mapped already, and more are added every week. Please visit the site to view this exciting project. And if you know of a lab that is not represented, please suggest that they submit an entry.
February 8, 2008
KCRG's Global Usability Knowledge Management (GUKM) project is featured in a usabilitynews.com article
December 11–14, 2007
Dr. Douglas participated in the ICLEPS research meeting at the University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
December 7–9, 2007
Dr. Douglas presented a paper on measuring student participation in online classes at CELDA 2007 in Algarve, Portugal.
November 6–9, 2007
Dr. Douglas presented a paper on a web-based framework to support knowledge sharing in organizations at ColleCTer Iberoamérica 2007 in Córdoba, Argentina.
October 19, 2007
KCRG's Global Usability Knowledge Management (GUKM) project is developing a worldwide database of usability testing labs. Over 100 labs are mapped already, and more are added every week. Please visit the site to view this exciting project. And if you know of a lab that is not represented, please suggest that they submit an entry.
July 20–27, 2007
Dr. Douglas presented a paper on the sharing of usability information at HCI International in Beijing, China
July 10–13, 2007
Dr. Douglas presented a paper on the efficacy of student participation in online classes at the 8th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET) in Kumamoto, Japan
KCRG conducts research on methods and tools that facilitate the creative construction, sharing, and reuse of knowledge among diverse groups of people. We have specific interests in: domain understanding, computer supported collaborative work, user-centered design, knowledge and information management, organizational learning and creative problem solving.

The center has conducted major research projects to investigate ways of using technology to increase the reuse and sharing of knowledge within the military. We have created a number of software prototypes that demonstrate new methods for sharing knowledge through the internet. We have also conducted a number of smaller research projects on issues ranging from the use of mobile computing in learning to participation in online classes. If you have any questions about our work or would like to access one of our prototypes, please send an email to Professor Ian Douglas.

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