Sensemaking

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George Furnas: Representational Change in Sensemaking

(from the CHI2008 Sensemaking workshop)

Sensemaking for the rest of us. Daniel M. Russell, Robin Jeffries, Lilly Irani. (from the CHI2008 Sensemaking workshop)

From the abstract: “for many sensemaking jobs, complex tools and advanced representational constructs don’t actually seem to help, but  can hinder the process of sensemaking.”

HCI2008 3 September 2008

SENSE MAKING I  Chair: Oscar de Bruijn

• Location-based Photography as Sense-making, Chris Baber, James Cross, Tariq Khaleel & Russell Beale
• The Roles of Time, Place, Value and Relationships in Collocated Photo Sharing with Camera Phones, Hanna Stelmaszewska, Bob Fields & Ann Blandford.
• Sharing Vocabularies: Tag Usage in CiteULike S Noël, R Beale

SENSE MAKING II  Chair: Tom McEwan

• Cueing Digital Memory: How and Why do Digital Notes Help Us Remember? Vaiva Kalnikait  & Steve Whittaker
• Sonic Gems: Exploring the Potential of Audio Recording as a Form of Sentimental Memory Capture. Gerard Oleksik & Lorna M. Brown
• Effects of Low & High Literacy on User Performance in Information Search and Retrieval. Neesha Kodagoda & B. L. William Wong

Jason R. Baron guest blogs about The Second International DESI Workshop on Search and Sensemaking, and the MIS International Conference on Digital Evidence in A Tale of Two London ESI Forums on the e-Discovery Team blog.

Compendium

Compendium is a software tool providing a flexible visual interface for managing the connections between information and ideas.

Sharoda Paul has a blog, About Making Sense of Sensemaking blog

DESI II workshop

Report on CHI’08 Sensemaking workshop (pdf) by Jean Scholtz (UMD)

The papers for the CHI’08 Sensemaking workshop are at:
http://dmrussell.googlepages.com/sensemakingworkshoppapers
courtesy of Dan Russell.