Message from anonymous: 12/15/2003 11:46 PM
Work is being done to discover how analysis gets done from the human perspective. For example, some specialize in cognitive task analysis, a set of techniques that enable us to explore what the cognitive challenges are in any domain, and how people work through them.
Many do similar kind of work, and we are hoping to articulate a number of leverage points where technology can be inserted to aid the analysts, not necessarily where specific solutions could be used.
Many are also involved in efforts geared toward exploring how potential technologies are, in fact, impacting the cognitive aspects of analysis. Thus, the focus is on the human side, not necessarily on developing technologies.
We want to more fully understand the task of analysis, and that is what the meeting will (hopefully!) focus on.
That said, there will be folks there who sit on both sides of the fence, as it were. Folks who do cognitive task analysis, and recommend the use of particular solutions to support analysts.
I suspect that you've seen the consequences of too much attention on technologies.