Understanding transdisciplinary scholarly communication in the field of joint attention

Xu,Jian; Ding,Ying

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Title

Understanding transdisciplinary scholarly communication in the field of joint attention

Author(s)

• Xu,Jian
• Ding,Ying

Issue Date

2017

Keyword(s)

• Transdisciplinary communication
• Joint attention
• Topic evolution

Abstract

Communication across disciplines is a well-known challenge for transdisciplinary collaboration. This study provides a quantitative approach to analyze the topic evolution in transdisciplinary domains as well as communication and mutual influence between them. The approach includes three main components: term extraction, ACT model, and topic similarity calculation. Given the result of topic similarity and term distribution probability of topics, the topic visualizer transforms the abstract topic mining results into a comprehensible visualization for further analyses. Taking the field of “joint attention” as example, preliminary analysis results show that the researches about “joint attention” are becoming more popular and maturity gradually in three separated domains; the topic evolution patterns of three domains show distinctive characteristics; the communication barrier between domains does exist apparently, which may hinders the large scale knowledge diffusion across disciplines. The proposed approach provides a foundation for further research to improve the communication across disciplines.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2017 Proceedings

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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Copyright 2017 Jian Xu and Ying Ding

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