Computational Coordination Mechanisms: A tale of a struggle for flexibility

Cabitza, Federico; Simone, Carla

doi:10.1007/s10606-013-9187-5

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“…The awareness of the history needs to be coupled to the work and tools practitioners use, not separated from them. To achieve this, we need "to make coordination and collaborative functionalities an aspect of the collaborative artifact rather than of a collaborative application" (Cabitza & Simone 2013). The empirical case here suggests that an II view would move the focus away from a single artifact of cooperation and seek more holistic explanations with potentially more power.…”

Section: The Information Infrastructure Should Naturalize and Historimentioning

confidence: 98%

“…I will discuss the O&G exploration process as an on-going naturalisation process of interpretations that is constructed collaboratively. I will show how interpretations are shaped and moulded over "different contexts over extended periods of time" (E. Monteiro et al 2012), or to frame it otherwise, through "asynchronous remote collaboration" (Cabitza & Simone 2013), involving several geoscientists and different geoscientific disciplines as "competent actors reflecting" (Prilla et al 2013) on historical interpretations, continuously refining them. An obvious challenge here is to locate relevant data in a vast amount of data, a process that is performed by people and multitude of search and database tools.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Case Study of an Information Infrastructure Supporting Knowledge Work in Oil and Gas Exploration

Mikalsen

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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It is well rehearsed in the fields of CSCW and IS that the relationship between the social and the material is bi-directional and shaped locally. But what happens when knowledge work is stretched across space and time, and the practice of today relies on actions and reflections done elsewhere and at different times? This paper presents an on-going case study of oil and gas exploration that takes steps to shed light on this emerging issue. I argue the relevance of framing the process of generating interpretations in oil and gas exploration in terms of information infrastructures. The case is representative for other cases where practitioners´ reflections cannot immediately be confirmed by empirical observation. Through a discussion on the concepts of coordination and accumulation across the dimensions of space and time, I outline how an able information infrastructure in this domain must balance the dualism of the concepts of naturalisation and historification.

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Section: The Information Infrastructure Should Naturalize and Historimentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Case Study of an Information Infrastructure Supporting Knowledge Work in Oil and Gas Exploration

Mikalsen

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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“…Awareness has been recognized to be a problematic concept in CSCW (Cabitza and Simone, 2013;Gross, 2013;Heath et al, 2002;Schmidt, 2002). Schmidt (2002) provocatively remarks that the very first question we should ask is: "awareness of what?"…”

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confidence: 99%

“…What we investigate in this paper is exactly the articulation, background work done as part of the EnviroTime project as a design strategy, aimed at both supporting and extending NorthOil's infrastructure. Articulation can for instance happen in practice by means of coordination mechanisms (CM), as described by Cabitza and Simone (2013). Among awareness-promotion CM, ordering systems (classification schemes, metadata structures) are used to articulate not actions directly, but rather the maintenance of specific structures that support the interconnection of actions (ibid.).…”

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“…It is not a question whether to reduce the environmental context, but how (Chalmers, 2004). Tools to facilitate the rendering of contextual elements could be coordination mechanisms (CM) (Cabitza and Simone, 2013). In our story, this might be the case of the integration script developed by QCB (see paragraph 5.3).…”

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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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Collaborative tools: computer science students' skills versus software industry needs

Medina-Domínguez

Sánchez-Segura

Moreno

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J Software Evolu Process

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Software companies encourage and further the use of collaborative tools and skills at the work place in pursuit of the benefits of their use: they improve communication, productivity and efficiency, and competitiveness. Besides, undergraduate and graduate software engineering computing curricula recommend subjects related to effective cooperative working and group learning. In order to align industry needs and curricula recommendations, universities should provide graduates with the collaborative knowledge and skills that will be required when they finish their degrees and join the labor market. In this scenario, we asked three questions: Are collaborative tools beneficial to software projects? Is it easier for graduates with knowledge and skills of collaborative tools to find a job? Do enterprises use collaborative tools as a marketing strategy for the recruitment process or are they really empowering their employees to use collaborative tools? We devised a survey which was administered to 86 recent computer science graduates. We applied statistical techniques to analyze the responses. We conclude that graduates skilled in the use of collaborative tools do find it easier to get jobs, and companies are not only looking for people with collaborative skills but also regularly use collaborative tools in their work processes.

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Computational Coordination Mechanisms: A tale of a struggle for flexibility

Cited by 35 publications

References 103 publications

A Case Study of an Information Infrastructure Supporting Knowledge Work in Oil and Gas Exploration

A Case Study of an Information Infrastructure Supporting Knowledge Work in Oil and Gas Exploration

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

Collaborative tools: computer science students' skills versus software industry needs

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