I could not stay in the session the whole time and not sure if I can make it back for the PM session. Here are some of the notes I was able to take.

Sensemaking Workshop
Classifaction of Sensemaking Representations - UCLIC
What do people want from sensemaking? Great question!
Conducted case study
Implications for Design - conceptual fit, representation classifaction
six characteristics

• spatial - maps
  
• argumentational - spatial hypertexts for digital library system, integration of a series of claims where conclusions are inferred
  
• faceted - table identifying characteristics of an item, film finder, select desired characteristics
  
• hierarchical - org. chart,
  
• sequential
• networked

classification helps to determine the best visual layout.

shiftr - CMU app to combine cognitive, hci and datamining to help people explore, visualize and make sense of lrge scale graph data. Gave demo in talk. Planning to run user studies.

Dan Russell from Google just gave great directions for lunch using tag cloud, visual representation and heuristic advice to "just follow your friend" in an effort to support all of the sensemakingtalks that were given this morning. Very much appreciated from the group.

My thoughts on presentations - do not use color for emphasis on slides, it may not show up well on screen. Make sure you always have a good dongle to connect your computer to the display cable and try it out at home to make sure it all works well. The primary role of a slide is to support, supplement and enhance your presentation - it should not detract, take away or diminish it.