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Distributed scientific group collaboration across biocontainment barriers

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Toni Robertson,

Christian Müller-TomfeldeAuthors Info & Claims

CSCW '12: Proceedings of the ACM 2012 conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Pages 1247 - 1256

https://doi.org/10.1145/2145204.2145392

Published: 11 February 2012 Publication History

Abstract

This paper reports the findings from a field study of distributed scientific collaboration within a national animal health laboratory. Collaboration in this setting is challenged by the need for biosecurity - there are physical containment barriers between scientists and work groups and movement of people and other physical objects across the barriers requires extensive security procedures. The aim of the field study was to understand how the scientists communicate across the barriers, particularly how they share information and collaborate on its analysis. The findings reveal that the collaboration issues relate not just to the challenges caused by the containment barriers but also to the need for collaboration support between the scientists and their work groups irrespective of the barriers. The paper explains how these findings informed the design of the collaboration platform being installed and how more generic requirements of supporting collaboration over distance were configured and extended to meet the specific requirements of a very particular local setting.

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Li JZic JOakes NLiu DWang C(2015)Secure Collaboration PlatformProceedings of the 2015 8th International Conference on Security Technology (SecTech)10.1109/SecTech.2015.11(9-12)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2015
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Roubert FPerry M(2013)Putting the lab in the lab bookProceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference10.5555/2578048.2578066(1-10)Online publication date: 9-Sep-2013
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