Towards an instrument for measuring sensemaking and an assessment of its theoretical features

This paper reports the result of a study that we conducted to develop an instrument for measuring sensemaking and to understand how sensemakers conceptualise the sensemaking that they are doing. To address these aims we conducted a review of how sensemaking is described in the literature and derived a series of features. These were used to construct a questionnaire, which we deployed in an experimental study in which participants performed a sensemaking task. The results help to validate the questionnaire and provide insights into how users think about the experience of sensemaking.

© Alsufiani et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development. First published in final form in the Electronic Workshops in Computing series at https://ewic.bcs.org/category/19268