Preparing for the Return to the Moon: From the Space Station mission control center in Houston to simulated missions in Utah and the Arctic.
Publications
Everyday & Scientific
ESSAYS
Personal Pages (Photos, Videos)
Stanford University Technical Reports from the 1980s are now available in the ERIC database.
I am a computer scientist, specializing in cognitive science and artificial intelligence. I am interested in developing practical applications by respecting the differences between people and computer systems (human-centered computing).
Recent Presentations:
Power Agents video on YouTube
Voyages of Discovery with the Mars Exploration Rovers
(File system management tool for Space Station operations)
Becoming the Rover
(An
ethnography of the MER scientists, to appear in S. Turkle (Ed.), An Inner History of Devices:
Simulation and Its Discontents.)
Power
System Agents: The Mobile Agents 2006 Field Test at MDRS
(HAL-inspired
voice-commanded data and alerting about electrical system at Mars
Desert Research Station)
Clear
Speaking about Machines: People are exploring Mars, not robots
(AAAI Workshop: The Human Implications of
Human-Robotic Interaction, Boston 2006.)