TY - GEN
T1 - Characterizing the intelligence analysis process
T2 - 2nd IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2011, VAST 2011
AU - Kang, Youn Ah
AU - Stasko, John
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - While intelligence analysis has been a primary target domain for visual analytics system development, relatively little user and task analysis has been conducted within this area. Our research community's understanding of the work processes and practices of intelligence analysts is not deep enough to adequately address their needs. Without a better understanding of the analysts and their problems, we cannot build visual analytics systems that integrate well with their work processes and truly provide benefit to them. In order to close this knowledge gap, we conducted a longitudinal, observational field study of intelligence analysts in training within the intelligence program at Mercyhurst College. We observed three teams of analysts, each working on an intelligence problem for a ten-week period. Based upon study findings, we describe and characterize processes and methods of intelligence analysis that we observed, make clarifications regarding the processes and practices, and suggest design implications for visual analytics systems for intelligence analysis.
AB - While intelligence analysis has been a primary target domain for visual analytics system development, relatively little user and task analysis has been conducted within this area. Our research community's understanding of the work processes and practices of intelligence analysts is not deep enough to adequately address their needs. Without a better understanding of the analysts and their problems, we cannot build visual analytics systems that integrate well with their work processes and truly provide benefit to them. In order to close this knowledge gap, we conducted a longitudinal, observational field study of intelligence analysts in training within the intelligence program at Mercyhurst College. We observed three teams of analysts, each working on an intelligence problem for a ten-week period. Based upon study findings, we describe and characterize processes and methods of intelligence analysis that we observed, make clarifications regarding the processes and practices, and suggest design implications for visual analytics systems for intelligence analysis.
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U2 - 10.1109/VAST.2011.6102438
DO - 10.1109/VAST.2011.6102438
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84855786714
SN - 9781467300131
T3 - VAST 2011 - IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2011, Proceedings
SP - 21
EP - 30
BT - VAST 2011 - IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology 2011, Proceedings
Y2 - 23 October 2011 through 28 October 2011
ER -