Sources of structure in sensemaking

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1989-1992

  Qu, Yan ^a   Furnas, George W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Information seeking; Representations; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP; INFORMATION SEEKING; REPRESENTATIONS; SENSE-MAKING THEORY; SENSEMAKING; TOPDOWN;

INFORMATION USE; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 57649150360     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1056808.1057074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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