This document summarizes the TiNYARM tool, which is not a reference manager but uses social media approaches to help researchers become aware of their peers' activities and filter relevant research content. It discusses how TiNYARM uses gamification and communities of practice to motivate reading. Current results found 56 active users out of 220 registered users who have read, skimmed or marked papers to read. The tool provides a simple reading list and sense of research interests but gamification was not fully convincing. Feedback and testing of the tool are encouraged.

1. TiNYARM
This is Not Yet Another Reference Manager
Gonzalo Parra, Joris Klerkx, Erik Duval
University of Leuven
MATEL WS @ ECTEL 2012 § September 19, 2012

2. Information overload..
Call for
Papers
... ...
Funding Published
oportunities articles
Researcher
... ...
References
Latest
... to your
research
work

3. Information overload..
Call for
Papers
... ...
Funding Published
oportunities articles
Researcher
... ...
References
Latest
... to your
research
work

4. Information overload..
Call for
Papers
... ...
Funding Published
oportunities articles
Researcher
... ...
References
Latest
... to your
research
work

5. Information overload..
Call for
Papers
...
Peder Olesen Larsen and
...
Markus von Ins, The rate of
Funding Published
oportunities growth in scientific publication
articles
and the decline in coverage
Researcher
provided by Science Citation
... ...
Index, Scientometrics
Volume 84, Number 3,
Latest
research
575-603 to your
...
References
work
9

6. Information overload..
Call for
Papers
...
Peder Olesen Larsen and
...
Markus von Ins, The rate of
Funding Published
oportunities growth in scientific publication
articles
and the decline in coverage
Researcher
provided by Science Citation
... ...
Index, Scientometrics
Volume 84, Number 3,
Latest
research
575-603 to your
...
References
work
9
...or filter failure?

7. HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU
ARE READING THE RIGHT
THING?

8. HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU
ARE READING THE RIGHT
THING?
... HAVE YOU NEVER MISSED A
RELEVANT PAPER?

9. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY
PAPERS HAVE YOU READ THE
LAST MONTH?

10. HOW MANY PAPERS YOUR
COLLEAGUES READ THE
LAST MONTH?

11. HOW MANY PAPERS YOUR
COLLEAGUES READ THE
LAST MONTH?
... AND ABOUT WHAT?

12. DO YOU SUGGEST PAPERS TO
COLLEAGUES?

13. DO YOU SUGGEST PAPERS TO
COLLEAGUES?
... HOW?

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

15. TINYARM
Social media to filter relevant content*
https://atinyarm.appspot.com/
* Gibs, J. Social Media: The next great gateway for content discovery.

16. 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

17. 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

18. PERSONAL INFORMATION
MANAGEMENT

19. GAMIFICATION

20. GAMIFICATION

21. awareness data
(self) reflection questions
sense making answers
behaviour
impact
change

22. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
Awareness Motivation Collaboration
Undergrads +/- √ +/-
PhD students √√ √ √
Postdoctoral
researchers & √ +/- √√
Professors

23. 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

24. TRY our tool...
GIVE feedback...
SHARE with others...
https://atinyarm.appspot.com/

25. QUESTIONS?
SUGGESTIONS?
http://bit.ly/gonzalo-parra

26. QUESTIONS?
SUGGESTIONS?
THANKS!
http://bit.ly/gonzalo-parra