Favorite Publications
These publications represent the second half of my tenure at NASA Ames when I related Brahms and Mobile Agents to work practice studies of field science and the Mars Exploration Rover missions. The chapters in Switching Codes and the Cambridge Handbook encapsulate my prior work on situated cognition.
- Clancey, W. J. 2018. Spatial Conception of Activities: Settings, Identity, and Felt Experience. In T. Huenefeldt and A. Schlitte (Eds.), Situatedness and Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Spatio-temporal Contingency of Human Life, in press.
- Synthesizes my research relating situated cognition, socio-technical systems design, and the ethnography of field science.
- Clancey, W. J. 2014. Working on Mars: Translating Planetary Field Science to Our Distant Lands. KERB Journal of Landscape Architecture, Volume 22, pp. 56-59.
- Invited article in special issue about the nature of remoteness and "translations" that occur in our experience of a place.
- Clancey, W.J. 2009. Becoming a Rover. In S. Turkle (Ed.), Simulation and Its Discontents, Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 107-127.
- An ethnography of the MER scientists, focusing on the social construction of identity as specialists adapt their expertise to the group practices and technological constraints of working with a rover on mars.
- Clancey, W.J. 2006. Clear Speaking about Machines: People are exploring Mars, not robots, AAAI Workshop: The Human Implications of Human-Robotic Interaction, Boston.
- Critique of advertising-speak used by both the press and scientists in describing robotic systems.
- Clancey, W.J. 2011. Relating Modes of Thought. In T. Bartscherer and R. Coover (Eds.), Switching Codes, University of Chicago Press, pp. 161-183.
- Commentary on three chapters in Switching Codes, section "Ontology, Induction, and Semantic Web"—a dance of the formalists and pragmatists.
- Clancey, W.J., Sierhuis, M., Alena, R., Dowding, J., Scott, M., and van Hoof, R. 2006. Power Agents: The Mobile Agents 2006 Field Test at MDRS, Mars Society Presentation.
- HAL-inspired voice-commanded data and alerting about electrical system at Mars Desert Research Station.
- Clancey, W. J., Lee, P., Cockell, C., Braham, S., Shafto, M. 2006. To the North Coast of Devon: Collaborative navigation while exploring unfamiliar terrain. In J. Clarke (Ed.) Mars Analog Research, Vol. 111, American Astronautical Society Science and Technology Series, San Diego: Univelt, Inc., pp. 197-226. AAS 06-263.
- Example of how analog research produces design requirements for planetary surface operations.
- Clancey, W.J. 2006. Observation of work practices in natural settings. In A. Ericsson, N. Charness, P. Feltovich & R. Hoffman (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook on Expertise and Expert Performance. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 127-145.
- Introduction to how to systematically observe human behavior, what to look for, and ways to think about what happens in everyday settings.
- Clancey, W. J. 2008. Scientific antecedents of situated cognition. In Philip Robbins and Murat Aydede (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 11-34.
- Provides a broad historical perspective, relating cognitive theories to systems thinking.
- Clancey, W.J, Sierhuis, M., Damer, B., Brodsky, B. 2005. Cognitive modeling of social behaviors. In R. Sun (Ed.), Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation. New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 151-184.
- Simulation of a planning meeting in Mars analog mission relating social, cognitive, and physiological aspects of human behavior.
- Pedersen, L., Clancey, W.J., Sierhuis, M., Muscettola, N., Smith, D.E., Lees, D., Rajan, K., Ramakrishnan, S., Tompkins, P., Vera, A., Dayton, T. 2006. Field demonstration of surface human-robotic exploration activity. AAAI-06 Spring Symposium: Where no human-robot team has gone before, Stanford, March.
- Report on a demonstration using Mobile Agents to integrate the K-10 robot and Europa planner.
- Clancey, W.J. 2004. Roles for agent assistants in field science: Understanding personal projects and collaboration, 34 (2) 125-137. Special Issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews, May.
- Compares Apollo 17 to exploration on Devon Island in High Canadian Arctic.
- Clancey, W.J., Lowry, M., Nado, R., Sierhuis, M. 2011. Software Productivity of Field Experiments Using the Mobile Agents Open Architecture with Workflow Interoperability. Proceedings of IEEE Fourth International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), Palo Alto, CA, August, pp. 85-92.
- Explains the Mobile Agents Architecture in terms of the dual-API method for integrating arbitrary hardware and software, then analyzes ten configurations to demonstrate advantages in software productivity.
- SMC-IT 2011 Conference Presentation
- Clancey, W.J., Linde, C., Seah, C., Shafto, M. 2013. Work Practice Simulation of Complex Human-Automation Systems in Safety Critical Situations: The Brahms Generalized Überlingen Model. NASA Technical Publication 2013-216508, Washington, D.C.
- Simulation of interactions among aircraft, pilots, air traffic controllers, and Traffic Collision Avoidance System (TCAS) to demonstrate early-in-design verification and validation methodology for assessing Next Generation Air Transportation Systems.
- See also: Clancey, W.J. (2014). Simulating Cognitive Complexity in Work Systems, Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Publication-Based Presentation (extended abstract), July.
- See also: AAAI 2014 Spring Symposium, Modeling in Human Machine Systems: Challenges for Formal Verification
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