Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories

Ribes, David; Lee, Charlotte P.

doi:10.1007/s10606-010-9120-0

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“…Our second contribution informs the increasingly important research area of temporality in infrastructure (Ribes and Lee 2010). We shift the infrastructure debate around sustainable change toward a dynamic interplay of generative material and social agencies, oriented to multiple dimensions of time.…”

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confidence: 95%

“…Grids continue to be of critical importance not just in supporting the work of natural scientists in areas such as global climate change, the Human Genome Project, or particle physicists' Large Hadron Collider (Ribes et al 2013), but are also transforming scientific practice in the burgeoning field of cyberinfrastructures (Atkins 2003;Ribes and Lee 2010). More recently, they have been forecasted to become the standard provision of everyday computing services in the future (Gray 2013).…”

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A Trichordal Temporal Approach to Digital Coordination: The Sociomaterial Mangling of the CERN Grid

Venters

Oborn

Barrett

2014

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A Trichordal Temporal Approach to Digital Coordination: The Sociomaterial Mangling of the CERN Grid

Venters

Oborn

Barrett

2014

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“…A further aspect that future work should look at deals with the reconfiguration between human work and technological delegation in infrastructures entailed by initiatives like EnviroTime (Ribes and Lee, 2010;Ribes et al, 2013). The form of automation produced by artifacts like the integration script described above is only one example of the way technology can lead to a redistribution of work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…(Karasti et al, 2006). The relevance of taking an information infrastructure perspective within CSCW is by now established (Monteiro et al, 2013;Ribes and Lee, 2010). Inspired by research in the Information Systems (IS) and Science and Technology Studies, Ribes and Lee (2010) point out that CSCW is well positioned to study infrastructures, but there is a need for a more detailed and systematic attention to this specific kind of computer-mediated collaborative work.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The relevance of taking an information infrastructure perspective within CSCW is by now established (Monteiro et al, 2013;Ribes and Lee, 2010). Inspired by research in the Information Systems (IS) and Science and Technology Studies, Ribes and Lee (2010) point out that CSCW is well positioned to study infrastructures, but there is a need for a more detailed and systematic attention to this specific kind of computer-mediated collaborative work. The authors also argue how the themes unfolding from this perspective all account for the broader issue of technological delegation, as infrastructures cause a redistribution of labor between humans and technologies.…”

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Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector

Parmiggiani¹

2014

COOP 2014 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems, 27-30 May 2014, Nice (France

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Abstract. Integrated Operations in the oil and gas industry depend on highly cooperative yet computer-mediated and distributed workflows across complex information infrastructures. In particular, offshore operations rely heavily on digital technologies to gain remote access to subsea oil or natural gas fields, and are at the same time subject to strict requirements by authorities to prevent pollution in the marine environment. Operators are consequently dependent on models and representations to assess and predict environmental risk. However, the heterogeneous disciplines operating a field cannot count on a shared perspective on environmental risk as their activities span across organizational and political boundaries. We present a case study from a Norwegian oil and gas company that is developing a set of tools and methodologies for providing heterogeneous users with awareness of the risk for the cold-water coral reefs off the coasts of Norway. In particular, we focus on the articulation work carried on to let representations and models compensate for the inevitable lack of shared awareness of environmental risk while at the same time fit the existing sociotechnical infrastructure. We discuss actors' strategies to foreground the infrastructure by: (1) bootstrapping the environmental data; (2) mediating with the existing corporate infrastructure; and (3) enacting the subsea context for operators.

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Game design for bioinformatics and cyberinfrastructure learning: a parallel computing case study

Perry

Robinson

Cruz

et al. 2014

Concurrency and Computation

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SUMMARY As a growing number of serious games have been developed for biology and computer science learning, few address the communication and technical challenges that arise in cyberinfrastructure (CI) intensive projects, where multiple‐domain scientists collaborate. This paper describes empirical data collected during a year‐long human‐centered game design process, in which design ideas generated by high‐school students were bridged with bioinformatics and parallel computing learning concepts. Our research shows that ‘fun’ and engaging game elements are actually well suited for addressing the sociotechnical aspects of CI projects. We provide a human‐centered game design methodology, as well as a case study, in which this methodology is applied to the design of parallel computing‐focused mini‐games. This research has implications for integrating large‐scale computing concepts such as shared resources and services into gaming experiences. It also has implications for supporting learning through enjoyable and fun experiences as part of a larger CI collaborative environment. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Sociotechnical Studies of Cyberinfrastructure and e-Research: Current Themes and Future Trajectories

Cited by 115 publications

References 36 publications

A Trichordal Temporal Approach to Digital Coordination: The Sociomaterial Mangling of the CERN Grid

A Trichordal Temporal Approach to Digital Coordination: The Sociomaterial Mangling of the CERN Grid

Of Corals and Web Portals: Towards a Digital Representation of Risk for the Cold-Water Corals in the Oil and Gas Sector

Game design for bioinformatics and cyberinfrastructure learning: a parallel computing case study

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