Human-agent knowledge cartography for e-science: NASA field trials at the Mars Desert Research Station

Sierhuis, Maarten and Buckingham Shum, Simon (2008). Human-agent knowledge cartography for e-science: NASA field trials at the Mars Desert Research Station. In: Okada, Alexandra; Buckingham Shum, Simon and Sherborne, Tony eds. Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques. Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Series. London: Springer, pp. 287–306.

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Abstract

This chapter describes the sociotechnical embedding of a knowledge cartography approach (Conversational Modelling) within a prototype e-science work system. This was evaluated over two 2-week field trials, simulating collaborative Mars-Earth geological exploration. We believe this work is the first demonstration of a knowledge mapping tool embedded within a human/software multiagent work system, with humans and agents reading and writing structures amenable to agent understanding and autonomous agent execution, and human understanding, annotation and argumentation. Secondly, in terms of the applied problem, we have demonstrated how human and agent plans, data, multimedia documents, metadata, discussions, interpretations and arguments can be mapped in an integrated manner, and successfully deployed in field trials which simulated aspects of mission workload pressure.

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2008 Springer-Verlag London Ltd

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1-84800-148-7, 978-1-84800-148-0

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