Visualising Actor Network for Cooperative Systems in Marine Technology

Abstract

Awareness is a concept familiar to specialists within the field of Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). It is superior for analysing and describing some of the ad hoc work activities that unfold in cooperation. Such informal activities are outside the scope of engineers' formal models, which are created to tackle challenges concerning human activities and their social interactions with regards to safety concerns in operation. This paper draws on fieldwork conducted in a marine setting of offshore operations. It presents an attempt to visualise the importance of cooperative work activities that shape computer systems. The aim, thus, is to portray cooperative work in a way that can be valuable for engineers implementing marine technology. We do so by way of presenting a transferring technique (2T) using insights from the CSCW field and Actor Network Theory (ANT).

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“…The cooperative work illuminated in systems' shapes shows that one vital capacity of the visual lies in its malleability [72]. CSCW insights, as mediators, can efficiently add "how-to" skills; it does not work from a low level of modeling interactive relations as functions for technical systems [73]. Rather, such efforts emerge from an ontological level of visualizing what is going on in the workspace and examining interactional work to bring any social events into the shapes of cooperative systems.…”

“…This example was from previous piece of work where the researchers transferred cooperative work into systems functions [73]. The researcher again picked up the topic of DP operations and explained,…”