Paper Info
Title
Enslaved to the Trapped Data: A Cognitive Work Analysis of Medical Systematic Reviews
Abstract
Systematic reviews are a comprehensive and parameterised form of literature review, found in most disciplines, that involve exhaustive analyses and rigorous interpretation of prior literature. Performing systematic reviews, however, can involve repetitive and laborious work in order to reach reliable standards. Strict guidelines and availability of published reviews make the task amenable to computerised assistance and automation using text mining, information extraction, and machine learning techniques. However, it is unclear which aspects of this Work Task are best suited for such support. This paper describes a three-month ethnographic study and CognitiveWork Analysis of the systematic reviews performed by a medical research group. Our findings show that the IR aspects of systematic reviews involve many tasks at two separate levels: 1) taxonomic organisation of documents and sub-document elements in relation to topic queries and domain-specific resources, and 2) extraction methods for structured summaries from the classified resources. This provides the basis for future work designing search tools with localised optimization and subtask automation to support specific phases of the process.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3295750.3298937
conference on human information interaction and retrieval
Keywords
Field
DocType
Work task, Systematic review, Cognitive work analysis
Information retrieval,Systematic review,Computer science,Cognitive work analysis,Automation,Information extraction,Medical research
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6025-8
0
0.34
References 
Authors
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ian A. Knight100.34
Max L. Wilson240944.58
David F. Brailsford314029.45
Natasa Milic-Frayling491775.24