An important aspect of collaborative information seeking (CIS) is making sense of the
information found, ie, collaborative sensemaking. We conducted an ethnographic study of …

This entry focuses on how research approaches labeled as sense-making or sensemaking
are used to address user-oriented research relevant to the study of human information …

The evolution of the Internet and digital systems is making it increasingly difficult to
understand cyber attacks. Politicians, ethicists, lawyers, business owners and other …

In a study of accidents among major air carriers, 88% of those involving human error could
be attributed to problems with situation awareness (SA); similarly problems with SA were …

The purpose of this chapter is to provide a brief understanding of macrocognition, some of its
theoretical and methodological underpinnings, and three examples of macrocognitive …

Increasingly, visual analytics (VA) is playing a major role in providing insights into the
relationships of complex data sets across a number of domains. This paper describes the …

Operators of power grid supervisory control systems have to gather information from a wide
variety of views to build situation awareness. Findings from a conducted field study show …

Technological capabilities are built to support different types of collaboration, and this gives
the justification to widely observe, how activity environments are influenced by technology …

Modern chemical plants consist of a number of integrated and interlinked process units.
When an abnormal situation occurs, the automation system alerts the operators through …

Abstract Information visualizations can amplify human cognition by transferring strenuous
cognitive operations with abstract data into visual reasoning processes with external graphic …