Information Analysis

The Information Analysis software prototype examines how distributed teams collaborate around making sense of text and other content, sharing that information with others, and decision making based on that shared knowledge. Designed to be a follow-on to the geocollaboration prototype, it supports sharing more than just geo-spatial information. The prototype allows users to markup informational documents, annotating the content and associating that content with people, places and time periods. Users can construct filtered views on the shared information and share those views with teammates. We developed a complex hidden profile-like experimental task around a crime-solving scenario to investigate paper and software-based team activity in this context.