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Our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer is Alyson S. Moon alyson@perigeantechnologies.com

Our Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer is Brian M. Moon @ LinkedIn & brian@perigeantechnologies.com

Our Finance and Human Resources Administrator is Cathy Loving @ LinkedIn & cathy@perigeantechnologies.com

Our technical staff are:
Phillip Ayoub @ LinkedIn & phil@perigeantechnologies.com

We are recognized leaders in the application of Applied Concept Mapping and naturalistic inquiry, with over 15 years of experience bringing these technologies and social science methods to bear on our clients' needs. Our clients include commercial, government, educational, and not-for-profit organizations.

In addition to our Services and Training, we maintain a prolific R&D portfolio, regularly publishing our research and forward thinking concepts. Our key publications are listed below.

We also take an active role in the worldwide community of Concept Mappers, serving on the Program Committee for the International Conference on Concept Mapping.

Many people ask about our company's name. Perigean (pronunciation): pertaining to the point in the orbit of the Moon at which its effects on earth are greatest (see our founders' surname); Technologies: means of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge.

Publications

Applied Concept Mapping-related

Our book, Applied Concept Mapping

CMC2004
Concept Maps and Wagon Wheels: Merging Methods to Improve the Understanding of Team Dynamics

CMC2006
Studying Transformation: The Use of CmapTools in Surveying the Integration of Intelligence and Operations

CMC 2008
Rapid And Accurate Idea Transfer: Evaluating Concept Maps Against Other Formats for the Transfer of Complex Information

CMC 2010
Concept Map-Based Assessment for Adult Learners

Scientific and Technical Final Report for Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Rapid and Accurate Idea Transfer - Presenting Ideas with Concept Maps

Paper presented at the 2010 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Cognitively Engineering a Virtual Collaboration Environment for Crisis Response

Panel Discussion at the Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Collaborative Concept Mapping as an Approach to Link Analysis

knowgraphy-related

Article published in KM World Magazine
The State of Knowledge Management

Article published in Managing Partner Magazine
Reaping Growth

Article published in Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science
Reasoning Difficulty in Analytical Activity

Article published in the American Public Power Association's magazine, Public Power
Keeping Crucial Knowledge From Leaving Forever

Article published in the Edison Electric Institute's Electric Perspectives Magazine
How Did You Do That?

Papers presented at the 2010 Winter Meeting of the American Nuclear Society
Lessons Learned in Knowledge Elicitation with Nuclear Experts

Knowledge Capture for the Utilities

Technical Update for the Electric Power Research Institute
Program on Technology Innovation: Accelerating the Achievement of Mission-Critical Expertise

Human-Centered Computing column in IEEE Intelligent Systems

Franchise Experts

Macrocognition

Perspectives on Sensemaking

Making Sense of Sensemaking 2: A Macrocognitive Model

What Is Design in the Context of Human-Centered Computing?

Paper presented at the Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
Cognitive Impact Metrics - Applying Macrocognition During the Design of Complex Cognitive Systems

Paper presented at the Seventh International Naturalistic Decision Making Conference
How Might Transformational Technologies and Concepts be Barriers to Sensemaking in Intelligence Analysis?

Paper presented at 19th Qualitative Analysis Conference
Naturalistic Decision Making: Establishing a Naturalistic Perspective in Judgment and Decision-Making Research

Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Science
Determining Training for New Technologies: A Decision Game and Facilitation Guide

Contributions to Working Minds: A Practitioner's Guide to Cognitive Task Analysis