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Oh my, where is the end of the context?: dealing with information in a highly complex environment

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Daniela Petrelli,

Vitaveska Lanfranchi,

Phil Moore,

Fabio Ciravegna,

Colin CadnasAuthors Info & Claims

IIiX: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Information interaction in context

Pages 37 - 41

https://doi.org/10.1145/1164820.1164830

Published: 18 October 2006 Publication History

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This paper reports on the preliminary results of a study in information production, transmission, access and use in aerospace manufacturing and maintenance. Multiple techniques were used in order to understand the context in which the information flow takes place. The complexity is such that after several meetings with users the full picture is not fully detailed yet. Previously unknown documents, user roles and tasks continue to emerge while the study progresses. The conclusion is that an iterative approach should be adopted when studying highly complex environments: starting from the broadest view, each cycle progressively focuses on a sub-context to identify important details. Researchers should also keep an open mind as unexpected findings are likely to impacts on the current understanding, i.e. discovering the importance of social networks or physical inspection of the hardware as means to access information.

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Freund L(2015)Contextualizing the information-seeking behavior of software engineersJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2327866:8(1594-1605)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/asi.23278
Petrelli DLanfranchi VCiravegna FBegdev RChapman S(2011)Highly focused document retrieval in aerospace engineeringAslib Proceedings10.1108/0001253111113563763:2/3(148-167)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2011
https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531111135637
Petrelli DMazumdar SDadzie ACiravegna F(2009)Multi Visualization and Dynamic Query for Effective Exploration of Semantic DataProceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference10.1007/978-3-642-04930-9_32(505-520)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-04930-9_32

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Freund L(2015)Contextualizing the information-seeking behavior of software engineersJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2327866:8(1594-1605)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1002/asi.23278
Petrelli DLanfranchi VCiravegna FBegdev RChapman S(2011)Highly focused document retrieval in aerospace engineeringAslib Proceedings10.1108/0001253111113563763:2/3(148-167)Online publication date: 22-Mar-2011
https://doi.org/10.1108/00012531111135637
Petrelli DMazumdar SDadzie ACiravegna F(2009)Multi Visualization and Dynamic Query for Effective Exploration of Semantic DataProceedings of the 8th International Semantic Web Conference10.1007/978-3-642-04930-9_32(505-520)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-04930-9_32

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