Name
Abstract | ||
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HCI studies of computational change in the sciences have made important design and analytic contributions, to other fields of science and to HCI itself. But some of the longer-term effects and complexities of infrastructural change in the sciences aren't easily captured under short-term, design- or artifact-centered accounts. Drawing on extended ethnographic study of computational development in ecology, this paper explores the relationship between new computational infrastructure and the nature of ecology as a vocation: roughly, the deeply held sense of what it means to 'be' an ecologist, and to 'do' ecology. We analyze in particular the nature of the field and field work as a central site of ecological practice and identity; how new computational developments are remediating this crucial relation; and the emergent vocational values that new and more computationally-intensive forms of ecology may give rise to. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2013 | 10.1145/2470654.2481397 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
computational development,important design,analytic contribution,hci study,infrastructural change,field work,new computational development,computational change,artifact-centered account,new computational infrastructure,ecology,collaboration | Ecology,Vocational education,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Applied ecology,Central Site,Ethnography,Computation | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
11 | 0.71 | 8 |
Authors | ||
2 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steven J. Jackson | 1 | 380 | 27.24 |
| Sarah Barbrow | 2 | 11 | 0.71 |