Pereira, CarlaMoreira Silva, ManuelCastro Fernandes, JoanaLucas Soares, António2021-05-202021-05-202007-09-10978-0-387-73798-0978-1-4757-0564-5http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/17961IFIP TC 5 Working Group 5.5 Eighth IFIP Working Conference on Virtual Enterprises September 10-12, 2007, Guimaraes, PortugalThis paper aims at presenting the preliminary results of a research work that seeks to understand the users' response to semantic based technologies, in the context o/, enterprise sponsored virtual communities. The research follows a qualitative methodolog}' based on an action research approach. It particlllar~v focuses on the socio-cognitive processes that underlie usel:~' learning and acquisition methods when training and interacting with a new knowledge management approach based on semantically enabled technologies in a collaborative, and sometimes virtual. learning/working environment. The outcomes of this research are expected to provide an assessment frameworkfor a deeper level understanding of the cognition process in what concerns the evolution of individual~~ knowledge. opinions. beliefs. and thoughts abuut untology based systems.engOntologyconference object10.1007/978-0-387-73798-0