Fundamental solutions in understanding information have been elusive for
a long time. The field of Artificial Intelligence has proposed the
Turing Test as a way to test for the "smart" behaviors of computer
programs that exhibit human-like qualities. Equivalent to the Turing
Test for the field of Human- Information Interaction (HII), getting
information to the people that need them and helping them to understand
the information is the new challenge of the Web era. In a short amount
of time, the infrastructure of the Web became ubiquitious not just in
terms of protocols and transcontinental cables but also in terms of
everyday devices capable of recalling network-stored data, sometimes
wire- lessly. Therefore, as these infrastructures become reality, our
attention on HII issues needs to shift from information access to
information sensemaking, a relatively new term coined to describe the
process of digesting information and understanding its structure and
intricacies so as to make decisions and take action.