A lot of people have asked me recently what I mean by “sensemaking”:
Sensemaking is a cognitive process of finding, processing, and making sense of information.
I am certainly not the first to use the term “sensemaking.” Synthesis and assimilation may be good synonyms for it. In other words, it involves building upon what you previously knew [...]
The video of my Reboot10 talk (in Copenhagen, June 2008) has been posted! I also summarized the talk in a previous post.
I released a survey on social network size yesterday.
We’re interested in seeing what correlation (if any) exists between people’s online social network (size) and real life, actual social connections. The survey asks a few short questions for people to answer, trying to stay as specific as possible to reduce speculation and estimating on network/connection sizes…although [...]
About Brynn Evans
I just finished the second year of my PhD program in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I've been studying how people use social web services for information sharing, discovery, and sensemaking.
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“Ever seen sex in a movie? You know how it's not really anything like actual sex? Same goes for guns.”
– Booma
22 August 2006
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