Hi all,
For those of you interested in interplanetary collaboration tools (!)
this report presents some reflections on the use of Compendium in the
Mars Desert Research Station field trial, and on the role of the 'Remote
Science Team Facilitator' (i.e. Compendium mapper - Al Selvin or myself)
which tries to characterise very briefly and informally (for a broad
audience) the role and skillset of such a person:
http://www.MarsSociety.org/MDRS/fs03/0508/rstcom.asp
Al Selvin's chapter in Visualizing Argumentation is a fuller
statement of this strange breed
[http://www.VisualizingArgumentation.info/]
You can also see a report and screenshot of the Meeting Replay tool,
which synchronizes video of a meeting with video of the Compendium maps
as they grow.
Other reports on Crew 29's experiences with Compendium (use on 'Mars' by
the crew for planning surface explorations, and analyzing data, and by
the scientists on 'Earth' to discuss the crew's decisions) are listed
chronologically at:
http://www.MarsSociety.org/MDRS/fs03/
There isn't one for every day of the 2 week exercise, but look for
Maarten Sierhuis's Communications Reports, and the RST-CommSys
Reports.
Cheers
Simon