Knowledge Media Institute, Open University

The Knowledge Media Institute (KMi) is an R D lab at the UK Open University, undertaking research into knowledge and media technologies including distributed collaboration media, semantic web, knowlege management, presence and messaging, virtual classrooms, multimedia environments for disabled learners, intelligent agents, organisational memories, digital documents, scientific visualisation and simulation tools, informal and formal representations of knowledge - in short, innovative approaches to sharing, accessing, and understanding knowledge.