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Vertesi, Janet (2008): "Seeing like a rover": embodied experience on the mars exploration rover mission. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 5-10, 2008. pp. 2523-2532. Available online

Although they work with two non-humanoid robots located several million miles away, the distributed team that operates the Mars Exploration Rovers demonstrates an uncanny sympathy for their robotic teammates. This paper examines not only how the Rovers are anthropomorphized by the human team, but also how the team takes on characteristics of the Rovers while conducting science and operations on Mars. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork with the Mars Rover mission, the paper places the configuration of the user in social context and probes the role of the machine as social resource, with implications for HCI.

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Boehner, Kirsten, Vertesi, Janet, Sengers, Phoebe and Dourish, Paul (2007): How HCI interprets the probes. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2007 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2007. pp. 1077-1086. Available online

We trace how cultural probes have been adopted and adapted by the HCI community. The flexibility of probes has been central to their uptake, resulting in a proliferation of divergent uses and derivatives. The varying patterns of adaptation of the probes reveal important underlying issues in HCI, suggesting under acknowledged disagreements about valid interpretation and the relationship between methods and their underlying methodology. With this analysis, we aim to clarify discussions around probes, and, more importantly, around how we define and evaluate methods in HCI, especially those grounded in unfamiliar conceptions of how research should be done.

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Kaye, Joseph 'Jofish', Vertesi, Janet, Avery, Shari, Dafoe, Allan, David, Shay, Onaga, Lisa, Rosero, Ivan and Pinch, Trevor (2006): To have and to hold: exploring the personal archive. In: Proceedings of ACM CHI 2006 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2006. pp. 275-284. Available online

The personal archive is not only about efficient storage and retrieval of information. This paper describes a study of forty-eight academics and the techniques and tools they use to manage their digital and material archiving of papers, emails, documents, internet bookmarks, correspondence, and other artifacts. We present two sets of results: we first discuss rationales behind subjects' archiving, which go beyond information retrieval to include creating a legacy, sharing resources, confronting fears and anxieties, and identity construction. We then show how these rationales were mapped into our subjects' physical, social and electronic spaces, and discuss implications for development of digital tools that allow for personal archiving.

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Publication period:2006-2008
Publication count:3
Number of co-authors:10



Productive colleagues

Janet Vertesi's 3 most productive colleagues in number of publications:

Paul Dourish:79
Phoebe Sengers:18
Kirsten Boehner:10


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Number of publications with 3 favourite co-authors:

Trevor Pinch:1
Kirsten Boehner:1
Phoebe Sengers:1

 

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