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Lightweight personal sensemaking tools for the web

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NordiCHI '10: Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries

Pages 413 - 421

https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868962

Published: 16 October 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Sensemaking is an ill-defined, iterative and complex activity concerned with the way people approach the process of collecting, organizing and creating representations of information. The user needs to be supported in two cognitive tasks: 'representation construction', which involves finding an appropriate structure to aid sensemaking and 'encoding', which is populating that structure with meaningful information. Much work has been completed in the area of encoding, but the forms of representation construction and how they can be better supported in software require further investigation.

This paper reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of a web-based personal sensemaking tool called Coalesce. It tightly integrates search facilities with the representation construction task through the SenseMap - an innovative interactive hierarchical mechanism for displaying, structuring and storing selected information. Results from controlled experiments indicate that Coalesce enhances users' searching, gathering and organizing tasks when compared to a standard browser and word processor combination, but without imposing an additional cognitive load.

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Index Terms

Lightweight personal sensemaking tools for the web
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. Interface design prototyping

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NordiCHI '10: Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries

October 2010

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ISBN:9781605589343

DOI:10.1145/1868914

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Reykjavik University, Iceland
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University College London
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Thunnom BRamingwong L(2015)An evaluation of page segment recommendation system using user's notes and N-Gram modelsProceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV)10.1109/ICIEV.2015.7333990(1-6)Online publication date: 15-Jun-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/ICIEV.2015.7333990
Thunnom BRamingwong L(2015)Page segment recommendation using N-gram for sensemaking tasks based on note taking2015 12th International Conference on Electrical Engineering/Electronics, Computer, Telecommunications and Information Technology (ECTI-CON)10.1109/ECTICon.2015.7207023(1-6)Online publication date: Jun-2015
https://doi.org/10.1109/ECTICon.2015.7207023

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