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11. Fluidity and Rigour: Addressing the Design Considerations for OSINT Tools and Processes

verfasst von : B. L. William Wong

Erschienen in: Open Source Intelligence Investigation

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In comparison with intelligence analysis, OSINT requires different methods of identifying, extracting and analyzing the data. Analysts must have the tools that enable them to flexibly, tentatively and creatively generate anchors to start a line of inquiry, develop and test their ideas, and to fluidly transition between methods and thinking and reasoning strategies to construct critical and rigorous arguments as that particular line of inquiry is finalised. This chapter illustrates how analysts think from a design perspective and discusses the integration of Fluidity and Rigour as two conflicting design requirements. It further proposes that designs for OSINT tools and processes should support the fluid and rapid construction of loose stories, a free-form approach to the assembly of data, inference making and conclusion generation to enable the rapid evolution of the story rigorous enough to withstand interrogation. We also propose that the design encourages the analyst to develop a questioning mental stance to encourage self-checking to identify and remove dubious or low reliability data.

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Fußnoten
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Focus group studies with 20 intelligence analysts (Wong et al. 2012), Think-aloud studies with 6 analysts performing a simulated intelligence task (Rooney et al. 2014), Think-aloud studies with 6 librarians carrying out a surrogate task of creating explanations from a literature review task (Kodagoda et al. 2013b).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Fluidity and Rigour: Addressing the Design Considerations for OSINT Tools and Processes
verfasst von
B. L. William Wong
Copyright-Jahr
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47671-1_11