Knowing the Hidden Connection of Students using Tagging Game

Nowadays, it is very important in capturing the knowledge assets in the community
either in the organization or in the student community. Previously, people are usually
relied on the old method which is the human's manual work in order for them to capture
the knowledge. Therefore, this project will be focusing on capturing the knowledge
assets or expertise using an interactive way which is the expertise tagging game. The
objective of this project is mainly to design a prototype of the game which it will be used
to identifY the expertise of the student and lastly to identifY the relationship between the
students. Thus, the project will be targeting Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS which
mainly the Business Information Systems student to gather their knowledge or expertise.
As for the research methodology, this project will be using Zhang (2008) method of
tagging game in order to identify the knowledge and expertise which then will lead to
creating the relationship between the students. Also, the process of tagging game will
provide a points to each tagged that matched the tag cloud and this is one of the attribute
of the game that can captured the interest of the player to keep on tagging a person as
there is a study shows the successful of this process. At the end of this project, the end
result will be the relationship created between the students with regards their expertise.