SP4 Connection Space & InnoTube

1. SP4 Connection Space& InnoTube ICE 2008 2008-06-25, Location Angelo Marco Luccini INSEAD/CALT marco.luccini@insead.edu

2. BUZZWORDS • WEB2.0 • ENTERPRISE2.0 • OPEN INNOVATION • GAMING • SP4 CONNECTION SPACE • InnoTube • Melodie • Xpertum • Social and Collaborative Web Search

3. Tool Overview 1/4 • InnoTube is an innovative video-based, YouTube-like, Channel and Profile-related Connection Game. • The Channel is a closed environment where profiled users can watch / load their videos (i.e. internal videos – that can be also recorded and uploaded on the fly) or other ones, coming form other sources (e.g. YouTube). • The Tool allows to visualise 3 kind of videos (Innovation Awareness, Ideas and Innovators) and to navigate / explore the Network represented by the users, the videos and the related tags and the connections (e.g. ‘has seen’, ‘knows’, ‘has submitted’, ‘is inspired by’, ‘is a version of’) among them via the embedded Network Visualisation and Navigation Tool, NVNT. • Idea’s evolution overtime can be monitored by the means of the so-called “Time-Machine”. • In addition, in the InnoTube Game a Connection Agent takes care of stimulating users' activities by matching users and ideas profiles and by providing users with suggestions on which video to select. • In the game, 2 players are presented with the same video they view in parallel and the goal of the game is to “match” their comments in order to (both) win. • Once the players have ended their game they are offered to know each other since they played anonymously. If they accept they will be connected and a new (‘knows’) link will be set and appear in the NVNT. • Other agents recommend connections based on similarity (according to video viewing styles and profiles matching) between the users.

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8. Tool Overview 2/4 • Showing the value of connecting people to people and people to ideas • Connection Targets Achieved : • browse through and reflect about relevant videos on innovation • connect to relevant knowledge assets (i.e. videos) related to the innovation dimension • gather annotations related to videos and provide feedback to existing videos • provide opportunity to identify relevant Innovation-related Ideas, Innovators and knowledge assets • connect with one’s own innovation-related characteristics and positioning • connect with other members' innovation-related characteristics and positioning • The generation of many ideas from different sources in the process of innovation can be fruitfully supported by InnoTube • WEB2.0 approach, i.e. user’s active participation • User-friendliness thanks to • YouTube-like channel • Easy Innovation-related community network navigation & exploration • Intuitiveness • Engaging profile-matching game for fostering people connecting to people and people to innovation-related videos • Recommending connection and similarity agents • Innovation ideas evolution overtime via the so-called “Time machine”

9. Tool Overview 3/4 • Roles: • User • Administrator • Features for the User: • Closed environment (i.e. Sign up-based) • YouTube-like channel (3 videos categories: Innovation, Ideas, Innovators) • Videos tagging • Videos rating • Videos annotation (i.e. User‘s comment) • Videos uploading (internal & externalvideos: from file system, online video-recording, YouTube) • User profiling • User‘s behaviour tracking (logfile) • Community) Network Visualisation & Navigation Tool (NVNT) • (continues) • Features for the User (continued): • Connections visualisation & creation:- people to people: User  knows  User;- people to video: User  has submitted / has seen  Video;- video to video: Video  has inspired / is a version of  Video;- video to idea/tag: Video  is related to  Competence/Tag. • NVNT search facilities • So-called „Time-Machine“ for monitoring network evolution overtime • Profile-matching connection game • Connection agents (based on ‚similarity‘ and used for recommending • Features for the Administrator: • Administrative activities (e.g. to delete video or comments, to change category of videos, to change user profiles)

10. Tool Overview 4/4 • A user is interested in a specific innovation-related topic (e.g. “development of a novel portable music device”) • The user puts this info in own InnoTube profile • The InnoTube connection agents will be activated and generate suggestions for relevant InnoTube community members and videos to be contacted and seen • In case none of the people the user knows are directly knowledgeable about IEOs related to the topic of interest, the user could use the network visualization features to display relationship networks and identify the “shortest path” to a relevant expert • The user can see / post comments on videos, and find out who’s most similar to her/him, or to another user too • The user can decide to play the game against a player and the connection agents will choose both the best opponent and the best video to see in order to have the opportunity to connect to the game mate eventually, or against the machine only in order to gain further inspiration on the topic only • As a critical mass in terms of ideas (i.e. videos) and participants is needed, deployment of InnoTube is valuable in large organisations • As well as communities of distributed people/innovators (e.g. Infonomia in Spain, other Living Labs) • Key: IEO = Innovation Experience Opportunity

11. Tahnk you !!!!!!!!!!!! • Albert A. Angehrn (albert.angehrn@insead.edu) • A. Marco Luccini (marco.luccini@insead.edu) • Centre for Advanced Learning Technologies (CALT) • INSEAD <The Business School for the World> • Fontainebleau Campus