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Brainstorming for Sensemaking in a Multimodal, Multiuser Cognitive Environment

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HCI International 2020 - Late Breaking Papers: User Experience Design and Case Studies (HCII 2020)

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This paper discusses a user study conducted on a brainstorming tool for brainstorming in intelligence analysis, situated in a cognitive and immersive system. The cognitive and immersive room is comprised of gesture technology, voice input, tablet input, and a 360 display to allow for group discussion and interaction. The brainstorming tool design is informed by sensemaking theory as defined by Pirolli and Card [1]. The basis for the digital brainstorming tool in our cognitive immersive environment is a structured analytic tool already in use by the intelligence analysis domain. We anticipate that this design will capitalize on cognitive familiarity to enable a more approachable design and facilitate a smoother and more useful tool. The user study (n = 26) is an A/B study conducted to compare the capabilities of the analog brainstorming tool with the digital brainstorming tool, and understand how the multimodal interaction system impacts brainstorming.

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  1. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 12180, USA

    Shannon Briggs, Matthew Peveler, Jaimie Drozdal, Lilit Balagyozyan & Jonas Braasch

  2. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Laboratory, Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598, USA

    Hui Su

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  2. Aaron Marcus and Associates, Berkeley, CA, USA

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  3. World Usability Day and Bentley User Experience Center, Newton Center, MA, USA

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Briggs, S., Peveler, M., Drozdal, J., Balagyozyan, L., Braasch, J., Su, H. (2020). Brainstorming for Sensemaking in a Multimodal, Multiuser Cognitive Environment. In: Stephanidis, C., Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Rau, PL.P., Moallem, A., Rauterberg, M. (eds) HCI International 2020 - Late Breaking Papers: User Experience Design and Case Studies. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12423. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-60114-0_4

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