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 [...]
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About Brynn Evans
I'm Brynn Evans, a PhD student in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I've been studying how people use social web services for information sharing, discovery, and sensemaking.