EAGER: The Europa Mission: Cyber-Human Systems in Formation

EAGER：欧罗巴任务：正在形成的网络人类系统

• 批准号: 1552469
• 负责人: Janet Vertesi
• 金额: $ 27.87万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1552469&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Europa; Mission; Cyber; Human

This exploratory research will study the development of NASA's mission to Jupiter's moon Europa, in order to understand how large, complex, cyber-human systems get started; how their team members develop and then implement a shared vision for their system given heterogeneous backgrounds and collaborative experiences; and what role these activities play in future science and technology outcomes. The Europa robot space probe will repeatedly scan this icy moon that may possess subsurface lakes comparable to those in Antarctica, using nine distinct computerized instruments, including cameras, spectrometers, a magnetometer, and a thermal instrument. While no hardware or software for the Europa mission yet exists, over the period of the research members of the planetary science community will engage in a frenzy of mission activity to turn their plans for space exploration into tangible technologies, building the cyber-human system that will enable their collaborative mission to the Jupiter system. This is a rare opportunity to observe a highly innovative cyber-human team forming for the first time, before their system is constructed, as they ask the questions and articulate the values that will establish the core elements of their eventual information system. Four elements of this cyber-human system will be studied during their formation: the question of integration (of science, hardware and software), the question of data management (how to balance expertise and sharing), the question of heritage (individuals with multiple mission heritages and different institutions), and the question of trajectory (how decisions early in the project affect activity downstream). Findings will prove crucial to our understanding of how a group dynamic becomes established that ultimately affects the developed information system from the ground up especially in the case of a long-lived system. The project will also contribute to our understanding of data management and standards-setting in scientific groups, and presents an unusual opportunity to engage ethnographically with a community with an interest in how cyber-human systems research might inform their work. Findings about data management, integration, and long-livedness that can take into account the nested, overlapping, and co-extensive nature of these collaborations will go further to support upcoming collaborations at NASA and beyond.

这项探索性研究将研究美国宇航局的木星卫星欧罗巴的使命的发展，以了解如何大型，复杂的，网络人类系统开始;他们的团队成员如何开发，然后实现他们的系统的共同愿景给定异质背景和协作经验;以及这些活动在未来的科学和技术成果中发挥什么作用。欧罗巴机器人太空探测器将使用九种不同的计算机化仪器，包括相机，光谱仪，磁力计和热仪器，反复扫描这个可能拥有与南极洲类似的地下湖泊的冰冷卫星。 虽然欧罗巴使命的硬件或软件还不存在，但在研究期间，行星科学界的成员将参与使命活动的狂热，将他们的太空探索计划转化为有形的技术，建立网络人类系统，使他们能够合作使命到木星系统。这是一个难得的机会来观察一个高度创新的网络人类团队，在他们的系统构建之前，他们第一次形成，因为他们提出的问题和阐明的价值观，将建立他们最终的信息系统的核心要素。 这个网络-人类系统的四个要素将在其形成过程中进行研究：整合问题（科学，硬件和软件），数据管理问题（如何平衡专业知识和共享），遗产问题（具有多重使命遗产和不同机构的个人），以及轨迹问题（项目早期的决策如何影响下游活动）。研究结果将证明至关重要的是，我们的理解如何一组动态成为建立，最终影响发达的信息系统从地面上，特别是在一个长期存在的系统的情况下。该项目还将有助于我们理解科学团体的数据管理和标准制定，并提供了一个不寻常的机会，让人们在民族志上与对网络人类系统研究如何为他们的工作提供信息感兴趣的社区进行接触。有关数据管理、集成和长期性的研究结果，可以考虑到这些合作的嵌套、重叠和共同扩展的性质，将进一步支持NASA及其他机构即将开展的合作。