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Human cognition needs to be major part of the sensemaking effort

Nature of problem can be discussed by military and intelligence areas.

There is a need to create institutional and cooperative partners

DANA institute in New York----excellent work with brain research

There are two presentations presently being given on the brain---

1. Museum arts and industry—brain---revolution on cognitive science---

2. Smithsonian/ national academy of science/ brain presentations

***The need to look at the commanders cognitive process, but also see the group cognitive process, individual commander and his staff/ CEO and his staff, etc.

Need to be focused on something that will apply to sensemaking

***Need to show something that can be actionable---

Sensemaking result/decisiveness in an internal process.

Decisiveness—flash of recognition when sense is made

Separate brain research

Chemical and electrical reaction in the brain, both properties must be looked at.

To see how once the decision is made, what sense was made at the different intervals

Echelon issues drive perspective

Commitment, or mechanism of the leader and what he uses to focus the group

Example from Dr. Leedoms paper.

Battle command proficiency—apply across any organization has/ 4 goals/ 17 major proficiencies, translate easily to emerging organizations and military environment. Commanders/CEO’s make people learn their responsibility

***Comprehension—next logical step after SA, you can know all the variables and put it in a way to act.

Because of the comprehension is not a part of psychology. Definitive feature of human behavior—cognitive

Make the next step and see the degree of comprehension, will translate into measures and across the board—definitely actionable---

***Collaboration---several units separate subordination lines---lateral interaction---process of collaborating

Shared comprehension of situation/ CCOM is already funding this idea/funding in the army.

Comprehension cannot be done context free. Process that makes sense/ integration of personal awareness coupled with a persons goals.

Process of integration directly correlated with the process of comprehension.

***Comprehending at different levels and research/ various aspects of comprehension problem, generalization/ organized in different context

coginfied, bodies of research/ systematic

Cognitive psychology research.

EXAMPLE: series of sentences that don’t make sense, and another sentence comes that shows retrospective.

**Context is everything---can’t comprehend till there is a larger real world understanding

Functional MRI our ability to put things together, what has to happen for people to put things together.

Comprehending, and then applying the comprehension context is everything.

We need a Table of Context different techniques to acquire context

QUESTION: Is there value in the community to come to agreed upon definitions

what does comprehension and sensemaking ?

We need an agreed upon glossary

pos. and neg.

Definitions people use give you a richer sense of the definition/cognitive map how people are sensemaking.

We need an operational understanding.

It mat be helpful to map, and who is defining terms and in what fashion, can’t impose

shaping effect

***Defining for CCRP world and some form of language-- we need common language

Shared SA ---don’t need consensus we just need to all understand the term, terms change overtime as well

Experts on sensemaking and break down into problem set and what research needs to be done

Experimentation and measures of merit, you need to operationally define

what is paradigm/basic research

****QUESTION: what types of factors contribute to individual or group sensemaking?

We don’t need to understand what’s happening but what is making this better

faster, easier, and how can technology make sensemaking better/

definitions different levels of sensemaking

***sensemaking is a verb, a process, assessing the situation/process instead of the state

Sensemaking is made at the platform level, individual sensemaking at direct action level

sensemaking at the abstract level, text and a lot of verbal, have to priorities the stuff in the abstract environment.

WHO CAN BENEFIT:

Military and business environments

emerging homeland defense disaster relief, al

all problems relate to how the understand the information they need, how it is shared, and how they act on it

Look at sensemaking at the platform, direct sensing or at abstract level

This does not depend on resources at hand

modeling effort especially in network environment

need for cognitive model

business world is a data rich environment, but we need some kind of model to interpret the data

Constructing a meaning from the data

depends of what the objective is.

1. need goal and 2.how do you make sense of it?

past experience to result pattern to info we have and how can technology aid us in this endevour

***sensemaking relates to actionable knowledge.

need goal or plan that action relates to

This is a problem of levels, problem where we need data at different levels. Level and link data and outcomes across levels, and new models and tools, and reason from the data and testable hypotheses.

Need for linkages

SENSEMAKING AS A

LEVELS OF ANALYSIS

+PROBLEMS

inter/multidisciplinary

NEEDS:

RICH DATA AT MULTIPLE LEVELS

IDENTIFU LINKS/RELATIONS among /BETWEEN LEVELS

NEW ANALYTICAL TOOLS TO INDENTIFY EXPLORE & DISLPAY THESE RELATIONSHIPS & THEIR MEANINGS

BOARD 2

IS SENSMAKING AN EM ERGING PROPERTY

1 CONDITIONS

2 LEVEL

IS SENSEMAKING A PROCESS?

1 WHAT ARE THE INPUTS REQUIRED

2 WHAT ARE THE OUTPUTS

3

SENSEMAKING IS NOT INFORMATION PROCESSING BUT DECISON & ACTION MAKING KNOWLEDEGE GENERATION

WHAT TECHNOLOGY OR MEDICINE or TRAINING ENAHANCE SENSEMAKING?