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CHI 2018 Workshop: "Sensemaking in a Senseless World" </b><b>- Call
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face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">We are seeking
workshop papers on topics in the area of sensemaking for a
workshop to be held at CHI 2018 in Montreal, Canada.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Making sense of
information is central to HCI as people look to understand
complex systems, domains and problems. Broadly, we take the
topic of sensemaking to mean understanding of how people collect
and organize information for analysis and synthesis, and the
tools and processes they follow when doing this.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Sensemaking, per se,
is everywhere in the systems we build and in the domains we
study. Whenever people need to function well with data, making
sense of the information is often a central task.</font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">We are interested in
both individual and group sensemaking practices—from how one
person figures out a complex data set, up to large,
collaborative group sensemaking where teams of people assemble
and interpret large, complex, interlocking sets of data.
Representative tasks include: the practices of people who deal
with sensemaking hand-offs (e.g., in a medical setting) or in
analytical areas (e.g., making sense of financial data for
forensic purposes); data set interpretation; understanding large
collections of documents; etc. </font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">In particular, what
are the tools, techniques and best practices of people who need
to make sense of a large amount of complex information? What
issues of scale, complexity and coordination arise that are
particular to making sense of a complex world? </font></div>
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face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>Workshop date: </b>Saturday,
April 21, 2018 (Montreal, Canada) at the CHI conference (</font><font
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target="_blank">https://chi2018.acm.org/</a>) </span></font><span
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<div><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Workshop
Goals</font></b></div>
<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">The workshop
will include research in areas such as: </font></div>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">how do people make sense of complex sets
of information? (behavior studies and tool use) • issues
of representation creation, evolution and use over time <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">implicit and explicit aspects of
sensemaking <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">group sensemaking: including different
levels of social aggregation, from individual, to group,
to large social contexts <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">both static and evolving problem
environments <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">how sensemaking fits into other knowledge
work (information gathering, decision making) <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">what is sensemaking today? (In particular,
what other sensemaking schools of thought are there, and
how can we mutually inform each others work?) <br>
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<div><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">From this
meeting of the minds, the Sensemaking workshop has several
desired outcomes: </font></div>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">First, we will create working
relationships between researchers whose work focuses on
aspects of sensemaking. While we certainly hope to bring
together those working within the HCI community, we would
like to try to bring in some researchers from other
disciplines as well, including Library & Information
Science (LIS) and Organizational Theory and Psychology
(e.g., cognitive/problem solving research). <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Our second outcome is to enrich our
understanding of sensemaking activities. This includes
striving for a shared understanding of the different
notions of sensemaking, laying out and structuring the
space of varieties of sensemaking (e.g., different levels
of social aggregation, static vs. dynamic contexts),
articulating their commonalities and differences. <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Our third goal is to draw from this is a
greater understanding of design implications for improved
sensemaking tools, systems and designs. There is a clearly
emerging demand for tools for verifiability and
trustability of facts shared on public media channels. For
example, a new generation of tools is emerging to allow
journalists to spot inaccurate or fake news by leveraging
ML algorithms and visualizations. Can we take advantage of
these tools in our everyday sensemaking tasks as well? </font></li>
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<div><b><font face="verdana, sans-serif" color="#000000">Organizers</font></b></div>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Daniel Russell has been working in the
area of sensemaking since the early 1990s. His publication
of The cost structure of sensemaking in 1993 led to a
stream of research in this area. Now a Senior Research
Scientist at Google, he primarily studies how people
formulate information needs and satisfy them with online
research tools and databases. He has run three earlier CHI
workshops on sensemaking, one of which led to a special
edition publication of the journal Computer-Human
Interaction. <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Gregorio Covertino is a Sr. UX Manager and
UX Researcher at Cloudera. He has been working on
collaborative visualizations for sensemaking since 2003
with his PhD work on multi-role emergency management
teams. In addition, he has worked on bias and
visualizations for intelligence analysis teams at Xerox
PARC. At Informatica and Cloudera, his most recent
research work has focused on self-service analytics tools
for business users, big data tools for data
scientists, and log analytics tools.<br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Niki Kittur is an Associate Professor and
Cooper-Siegel Chair in the Human-Computer Interaction
Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research
explores a future that scales sensemaking beyond the
limits of a single individual’s mind by: 1) distributing
sensemaking among many people and machines; 2) enabling
people to build on the sensemaking that others have
already done; and 3) seamlessly integrating human and
machine cognition to make sense of large information
spaces. He is also a co-founder of DataSquid, a startup
that supports sensemaking by bringing the power of
intuitive touch and physics to data visualization.<br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Peter Pirolli has been a long-time
contributor to the sensemaking literature, establishing
his contributions to this area with the seminal book
Information Foraging Theory (2007). His research involves
a mix of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and
human-computer interaction, with applications in digital
health, sensemaking, and information foraging. <br>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><font face="verdana, sans-serif"
color="#000000">Elizabeth Anne Watkins primarily studies
news-producing organizations. News organizations combine
the technical and complexity issues typical of
bureaucratic systems with the creative, autonomous
decision-making of journalists. As more industries face
changing labor models, shifting to remote workers and
building more of their computing needs on third-party
platforms, journalists can serve as a critical
early-warning population, a canary- in-the-coal-mine look
at the management of cybersecurity in the future of work.
For us, sensemaking provides a framework to study how
journalists who work in these organizations “make sense”
of cybersecurity. After analyzing interviews with a range
of journalists with diverse priorities and obligations,
and testing for an array of sensemaking frameworks, we
found fragmented sensemaking to be pervasive. This is a
hazardous condition for security in a networked
organization, because such a framework correlates with
misaligned and scattered behaviors. <br>
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style="font-size:12.8px">If you are interested in submitting
or attending the workshop, you can find more details on the
workshop website: </span><a
href="https://sensemakingchi2018.com/"
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target="_blank">http://sensemakingwor<wbr>kshop2018.com</a><span
style="font-size:12.8px"> For inquiries, please email: </span><span
style="font-size:12.8px"><a
href="mailto:dmrussell%2Bsensemaking2081@gmail.com"
target="_blank">dmrussell+<wbr>sensemaking2081@gmail.com</a></span></font></div>
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style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Deadlines: </b> The deadline for
submitted workshop papers is March 2, 2018. Notification of
acceptance will be March 30, 2018. </span></font></div>
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