eprintid: 10091994
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creators_name: Blandford, A
creators_name: Faisal, S
creators_name: Attfield, S
title: Conceptual design for sensemaking
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F48
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abstract: The focus of sensemaking research is often on process and resources such as "schemas" and "frames". Less attention has been paid to the conceptual structures that make up the schema or frame, or how visualisations can be designed to support users' conceptual structures. In this chapter, we present an approach to gathering user requirements based on the conceptual structures that people are working with when making sense of a domain. We illustrate the approach with examples drawn from our own experience of designing, prototyping and testing an interactive visualisation tool for making sense of academic literature and of studies of sensemaking by lawyers and journalists. We discuss how to move from requirements to design, drawing on a classification of visualisations that highlights their principal conceptual structuring basis. Since each individual makes sense in their own way, it is beneficial to include features that enable people to work with a representation in their own way; for this, appropriation tools are helpful. We discuss the design of such features. Finally, we present an approach to evaluating interactive visualisations in terms of their support for sensemaking, focusing on the quality of the fit between users and system.
date: 2013-06-25
date_type: published
publisher: Springer
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2_10
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 966794
doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-7485-2_10
isbn_13: 9781461474845
lyricists_name: Blandford, Ann
lyricists_id: AEBLA22
actors_name: Blandford, Ann
actors_id: AEBLA22
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: New York, NY, USA
pagerange: 253-283
book_title: Handbook of Human Centric Visualization
edition: 1st
citation:        Blandford, A;    Faisal, S;    Attfield, S;      (2013)    Conceptual design for sensemaking.                    In:  Handbook of Human Centric Visualization. (pp. 253-283).   Springer: New York, NY, USA.       Green open access   
 
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