Distributed sensemaking: Improving sensemaking by leveraging the efforts of previous users

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 247-256

  Fisher, Kristie ^a,b   Counts, Scott ^a   Kittur, Aniket ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Knowledge mapping; Search; Sensemaking

Indexed keywords

COLLABORATION; INFORMATION SPACES; KNOWLEDGE MAP; KNOWLEDGE MAPPING; MENTAL MODEL; SEARCH; SENSEMAKING; SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; WEB SEARCHES;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862059642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2207711     Document Type: Conference Paper

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