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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Seminar on Space
Policy and Society</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>"Seeing
Like A Rover": Imaging and Interacting on the Mars Exploration Rover <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Mission</st1:place></st1:City></span></font></i></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Janet Vertesi</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Science & Technology Studies
Department</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on"><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>TODAY</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Wednesday, February
6</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>5:00-7:00pm</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Room 33-116</span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Abstract:</span></font></b> <font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>For the public, the many images that
return from the Mars Exploration Rover mission show "what it would look
like if you were standing on Mars". But the team of scientists and
engineers that operate Spirit and <st1:place w:st="on">Opportunity</st1:place>
rely heavily on these images to decide where the Rover is, what challenges it
faces and what it should do next. In doing so, they speak of "learning to
see like a Rover", and adopt both computational and embodied visualization
strategies to support this robotic vision. This talk draws on two years of
fieldwork with the Mars Exploration Rover team to explore the visual
interpretations, transformations of pictorial data, and wide-spread adoption of
robotic attributes that enable daily Rover activities on Mars, with policy
implications for robotic mission operations.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><b><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
font-weight:bold'>Biography:</span></font></b><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Janet Vertesi holds an M.Phil. in
the History and Philosophy of Science from <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cambridge</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> and is currently a PhD
candidate in the Science & Technology Studies Department at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Cornell</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, where she works on the
history and sociology of images and visual technologies in scientific practice.
Her NSF-supported doctoral research explores the use of images on the Mars
Exploration Rover mission based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, participant
observation and interviews with team members across the country. With
publications ranging from a 17th century lunar mapping controversy to the use
of the London Underground Map to represent urban space, Janet is also active
within the Human Computer Interaction community as a contributor at CHI and as
a member of Cornell Information Science's Culturally Embedded Computing
Research Group.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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