Human Exploration Ethnography

First Presented at the Mars Society Second Annual Conference

Mars Arctic Research Station Workshop

August 1999

William J. Clancey

Table of Contents

Title

Study Origins & Comparisons

Location of Haughton Crater

Historical Perspective

Who are the People Being Studied?

Example: Conceptual Change in the Field

Investigation of Activities, Places, Concepts

Objective of Study

Ethnographic Methods

Key Research Topics

Time-Space Interactions

Time Lapse Analysis

Time Lapse by Person

Domain Analysis Framework

Domain Analysis: Reasons for...

Revisit Planning

Domain Analysis: Stages in a Traverse

Collaborative Scientific Discovery

Kinds of Notebooks

Kinds of Improvisation 1

Kinds of Improvisation 2

Improvisation at Sapphire Lake

Hypotheses Under Investigation: Exploration

Hypotheses Under Investigation: Conceptual Change

Hypotheses Under Investigation: Scientific Practice

Hypotheses Under Investigation: Design Methodology

Hypotheses Under Investigation: Communication

Hypotheses Under Investigation: Mission Control

Survey of Computer Usage

How the Internet Affects Field Science

Whatís Next

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