Sharik 1.0: User Needs and System Requirements for a Web-Based Tool to Support Collaborative Sensemaking

Abstract

All-source analysts collaborate with each other on various information requirements. They receive different types of information from various collators, integrate and relate those information items to produce intelligence, and then share the new intelligence items with their peers. In this report, the authors describe Sharik (SHAring Resources, Information, and Knowledge), a web-based tool aimed at supporting collaborative sense making among all-source intelligence analysts in distributed command and control centers. The primary goal of this tool is to support analysts in producing, and more importantly sharing, new intelligence pieces with their teammates while retaining a high situational awareness of the intelligence productions status.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1018068

Entities

People

  • Peter Kwantes
  • Shadi Ghajar-khosravi

Organizations

  • DRDC Toronto

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computer Graphics
  • Engineering
  • Human Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Intelligence Analysis
  • Intelligence Analysts
  • Intelligence Collection
  • Intelligence Collection Disciplines
  • Intelligence Cycle
  • National Security
  • Open Source Intelligence
  • Production
  • Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Teamwork
  • User Interface

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control