Article ID: CBB001250747

Seeing Like a Rover: Visualization, Embodiment, and Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (2012)

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Based on more than 2 years of ethnographic immersion with the Mars Exploration Rover mission, this paper examines the representational work and associated embodied practices through which the science and engineering team makes decisions about how and where to move their robots. Building on prior work in Science and Technology Studies on the importance of embodiment to visualization, the paper posits that such practices also contribute to the production and maintenance of social order within the organizational context of the laboratory. It thus places visualization technologies and techniques in the context of the social organization of scientific work, contributing to our understanding of representation in scientific practice.

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Description An ethnographic study of the scientists and technicians working on this Mars project.


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Authors & Contributors
Vertesi, Janet Amelia
Mirmalek, Zara Lenora
Determann, Jörg Matthias
J. Jesse Ramirez
Abnet, Dustin
Evan Moritz
Concepts
Space travel; space flight
Space research and exploration
Mars
Space programs
Technology and politics
Robots
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Middle and Near East
Russia
Soviet Union
Institutions
Mars Exploration Rover Mission (U.S.)
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
United States Space Force (USSF)
Place
United States. Department of Defense
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