TY - JOUR
T1 - From offshore operation to onshore simulator
T2 - Using visualized ethnographic outcomes to work with systems developers
AU - Pan, Yushan
AU - Finken, Sisse
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 by the authors.
PY - 2018/2/9
Y1 - 2018/2/9
N2 - This paper focuses on the process of translating insights from a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)-based study, conducted on a vessel at sea, into a model that can assist systems developers working with simulators, which are used by vessel operators for training purposes on land. That is, the empirical study at sea brought about rich insights into cooperation, which is important for systems developers to know about and consider in their designs. In the paper, we establish a model that primarily consists of a ‘computational artifact’. The model is designed to support researchers working with systems developers. Drawing on marine examples, we focus on the translation process and investigate how the model serves to visualize work activities; how it addresses relations between technical and computational artifacts, as well as between functions in technical systems and functionalities in cooperative systems. In turn, we link design back to fieldwork studies.
AB - This paper focuses on the process of translating insights from a Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW)-based study, conducted on a vessel at sea, into a model that can assist systems developers working with simulators, which are used by vessel operators for training purposes on land. That is, the empirical study at sea brought about rich insights into cooperation, which is important for systems developers to know about and consider in their designs. In the paper, we establish a model that primarily consists of a ‘computational artifact’. The model is designed to support researchers working with systems developers. Drawing on marine examples, we focus on the translation process and investigate how the model serves to visualize work activities; how it addresses relations between technical and computational artifacts, as well as between functions in technical systems and functionalities in cooperative systems. In turn, we link design back to fieldwork studies.
KW - Computer-supported cooperative work
KW - Social computing
KW - System design
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85061286716&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3390/informatics5010010
DO - 10.3390/informatics5010010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061286716
SN - 2227-9709
VL - 5
JO - Informatics
JF - Informatics
IS - 1
M1 - 10
ER -