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'Coalesce': a web-based tool for sensemaking

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7

Pages 289 - 292

https://doi.org/10.1145/1738826.1738877

Published: 23 November 2009 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 requires further investigation.

This paper reports on the design, implementation and evaluation of a web-based 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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https://doi.org/10.1109/ECTICon.2015.7207023

Index Terms

'Coalesce': a web-based tool for sensemaking
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Web-based interaction
2. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
  2. Information storage systems

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OZCHI '09: Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group: Design: Open 24/7

November 2009

445 pages

ISBN:9781605588544

DOI:10.1145/1738826

Conference Chair:
Marcus Foth
Queensland University of Technology
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Aalborg University
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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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