人脈活用支援システムの構築 DEVELOPMENT OF A SUPPORTING SYSTEM FOR PRACTICAL USE OF PERSONAL CONNECTIONS

グループの情報源は各個人である.分散オフィス化に伴い,各個人の情報を共有し,それを各分散オフィスで活用できる環境が必要となる.そこで我々は,各個人が人と人との出合によって生じた人脈という情報に着目し,それをグループで共有・活用することを目的とするシステムの構築を行う.これにより,グループ活動の生産性が上がり,組織力が向上すると考えられる.各個人の人脈をグループで活用する場合,各個人が人脈を評価する必要がある.そこで我々は人脈の定量化とその視覚化を行った.本報告では,人脈の考察,人脈の定量化とその視覚化手法,並びに本システムの構成とそれを用いた人脈活用について述べる.

It is said that every member of a group is considered as an information source. With the development of distributed offices, we consider the necessity of groupware systems that allow sharing information between each group member for its usage in each distributed office. Therefore we are developing a system whose aim is to share and use the personal connections (PC) that each group member obtains in her/his social relationships. We suppose that in this way our system can raise the productivity and the power of the group in general. When a group member uses other members' PC in the system, s/he has to evaluate the degree of that PC in some way. Therefore the system allows the quantification and visualization of a group PC. In this paper, we describe our considerations about practical use of the PC together with its quantification and visualization methods, the overview of the system and the practical use of the PC provided by this environment.