Planetary Science and Robotic Space Exploration
The Mars Exploration Rover Mission, in: Leadership in Science and Technology: A SAGE Reference Handbook, ed. W. Bainbridge. Forthcoming, fall, 2011.
Tweeting Spacecraft: Communicating Science in the Age of Web 2.0, Communicating Astronomy with the Public Number 10, December 2010, 30-33.
Sociological Considerations for the Success of Unmanned Missions (Vertesi, Pappalardo, Alexander, Clancey, Cohen, Dourish, Johnson, Larsen, Lichtenberg, Linde, Maxwell, Mirmalek and Moore, 2009). White Paper submitted to the Planetary Society Decadal Survey, 2013-2023.
Seeing Like a Rover: Images in Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission". PhD Dissertation Submitted to Cornell University Science and Technology Studies Department, 2009.
Cyberinfrastructure in Interplanetary Collaboration: The Case of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (CSCW Workshop 2008).
The Social Life of Spacecraft: The Organization of Interplanetary Robotic Exploration Systems (with Paul Dourish). LUCI Technical Report 2008.
Seeing Like a Rover: Embodied Interaction on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (alt.CHI 2008) Subway Maps and Urban Spaces Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map and Users' Representations of Urban Space (Social Studies of Science 38, 2008). Hacker Mullins Prize, American Sociological Association: Science, Knowledge and Technology Section, 2006. Imaging the City: Exploring the Practices and Technologies of Representing the Urban Environment in HCI (with Carl DiSalvo). CHI Workshop 2007.
Mind the Gap: The London Underground Map as User Interface (CHI workshop 2005). This version is 4 pages and written for a Human-Computer Interaction audience. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI, CSCW, Ubicomp) Transnational HCI: humans, computers, and interactions in transnational contexts (Vertesi, Shklovski, Lindtner, ext. abst. CHI 2011).
The Value of Data: Considering the Context of Production in Data Economies (Vertesi & Dourish, CSCW 2011).
Postcolonial Computing: A Lens on Design and Development (Irani, Vertesi, Dourish, Phillip, Grinter, CHI 2010).
Death and the Social Network (Brubaker & Vertesi). CHI workshop on Death and the Digital, 2010.
The Commodification of Location: Dynamics of Power in Location-Based Systems (Shklovski, Vertesi, Troshynski and Dourish; Ubiquitous Computing, 2009). Link to ACM Portal How HCI Interprets the Probes (Boehner, Vertesi, Sengers, and Dourish; CHI, 2007) CHI Best Paper Nominee. To Have and to Hold: Exploring the Personal Archive (Kaye, Vertesi, et al., CHI 2006) Intercultural Probes as a method for reflective HCI (CHI workshop, 2006) History of Science, History of Astronomy Instrumental Images: the Visual Rhetoric of Self-Presentation in Hevelius' Machina Coelestis (British Journal for the History of Science). Published Online March 22, 2010 (First View). doi:10.1017/S0007087410000440
Picturing the Moon: Hevelius and Riccioli's Visual Debate (Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, June 2007) Light and Enlightenment in Joseph Wright of Derby's The Alchymist (MPhil thesis, University of Cambridge Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, unpublished) Fun Stuff Our Favorite Martians, third party article in Air and Space Magazine featuring my work on the Mars Rover mission, March 2010.
Doing the Rover Dance (Ambidextrous, 2009) Pygmalion's Legacy: Cyborg Women in Science Fiction (In: Sci Fi in the Mind's Eye, Open Court, 2007) Sicily or Sea of Tranquility? Mapping and Naming the Moon (Endeavour, 2004)