Charge to the Working Groups

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Working Group A
Amy Bolton Naval Air Warfare Center Bob
Fleming SPAWAR David Noble EBR, Inc. Dick
Wilson EBR, Inc. Dennis Wisnosky Wizdom
Systems, Inc. Gwendolyn Campbell Naval Air
Warfare Center JoAnn Brooks MITRE John
Buchheister OASD(C3I) Karen Carr BAE
Systems Karlene Roberts Berkeley Kristina
Thompson EBR, Inc Larry Wiener OPNAV
N6 Stevana Allman EBR. Inc
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Basic Research

• - Define what you look for in sensemaking
• - Ethnographic Studies
• - to understand the process of sensemaking in
  operational context
• - to serve as a baseline for comparing
  different cognitive models
• - Identify typology of sensemaking situations
  the context dimensions that impact sensemaking
  (e.g. time horizons and familiarity of the
  domain)
• - cognitive task analysis
• - Investigate the relationship between individual
  and group sensemaking
• - Understanding sensemaking mechanisms (including
  intuitive vs. analytical sense-making) and how
  they relate to the sensemaking contexts as
  defined within our typology
• - Develop functional models
• - identifying the relative contributions of all
  these things (individual differences,
  personalities, emotions, and generalizable
  cognitive skills vs. domain specific knowledge
  and processes)

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Basic Research (cont.)

• - Identify ways to help people handle unfamiliar
  situations
• - identify ways to help people know they are in
  unfamiliar situations
• - Identify methods to notice and handle cues of
  low diagnosticity (pattern recognition)
• - Understand sensemaking at individual, group,
  organizational, and system levels
• - Develop and use forcing scenarios as a method
  for analyzing the issues
• - Develop a sensemaking (conceptual) framework
• - fragility
• - educable
• - multiple views
• - Develop metrics for diagnosis and evaluation of
  sensemaking performance
• - Understand relationship among awareness,
  sensemaking and information
• - Reconcile the differences among overlapping
  concepts, i.e., situational awareness,
  assessment, understanding, comprehension, mental
  maps, and sensemaking

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Applied Research

• - Identify types of information technology that
  may support sensemaking
• - real time what if modeling techniques
• - decision support that classifies data in
  terms of the extent to which it supports the
  current hypothesis
• - Identify types of training that may support
  sensemaking
• - Identify types of organizational structures and
  processes that may support sensemaking
• - Support the identification of data needed to
  confirm/disconfirm current hypothesis
• - identify ways to obtain the data
• - Investigate the application of sensemaking to
• - psyops
• - deception
• - disinformation
• - propaganda
• -countermeasures

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Applied Research (cont.)

• - Conduct research on people who must make
  decisions rapidly in a stressful environment
• - hospital emergency room personnel
• - FEMA
• - wildland firefighters (hotshots)
• - SAR
• - option traders
• - 911 operator
• - Identify the cultural changes and
  infrastructures necessary to allow our
  acquisition and procurement processes to
  incorporate the results of the research to
  improve future sensemaking systems
• - Investigate systems engineering issues for
  implementing the socio- technical aspects of
  sensemaking

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Transition

• e.g. McNeil / Lehrer
• Ken Boff
• John Seelye Brown - social life of information
  community of practice
• Paol Duguid -
• Dennis Wisnosky
• Dennis Leedom
• Admiral Poindexter (Genoa)
• Wayne Zachary
• UK MOD

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Practitioner Panel

• Congress
• Big oil company rep.
• Swift CEO - Leonard Schranck
• Intelligence agencies
• CDC
• Law Enforcement / detective(s)
• Admiral Cebrowski
• Admiral Mercer
• FEMA
• UN / UNICEF / WFP / UNHCR
• NATO
• Department of State

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Practitioner Panel (cont.)

• USJFCOM / J9 - Captain Sherin
• C3F / J9 - Capt. Stuart Kendrick
• MITRE - Cathy Sowell
• CNO - Task Force Excel
• Marine Gen. Krulak
• Marketing
• Captain Tempestilli - US Naval Academy
• UK MOD

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Organizational Linkages

• ONR - Bill Vaughan
• NSF - Suzi Lacono
• DARPA - Dylan Schmorrow
• AFRL - Ken Boff
• J9 - Capt. Sherin / Russ Richards
• SPAWAR - Jay Martin
• NAWCTSD - Jan Cannon-Bowers
• Advanced Research and Development - Greg Smith
• Intelligence Technology Innovation Center - John
  Phillips
• ARL - Laurel Allender
• NATO C3 Agency -
• Mitsubishi Co.
• S.W.I.F.T. Consortium