Supporting Sense-making with Tools for Structuring a Concept Space: A Proposal for Design and Evaluation

This paper describes a research proposal to investigate sense-making processes in complex situations with the assistance of information systems. It presents the design of a sense-making tool to be integrated with a news retrieval system. The proposed user study aims to understand how users use thi...

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Main Author: Zhang, Pengyi
Other Authors: Lussky, Joan
Language:en
Published: 2007
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/106369
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Summary:This paper describes a research proposal to investigate sense-making processes in complex situations with the assistance of information systems. It presents the design of a sense-making tool to be integrated with a news retrieval system. The proposed user study aims to understand how users use this tool to establish and organize their conceptual models of a network of concepts and relationships.