id: 05833359
dt: j
an: 05833359
au: De La Flor, Grace; Ojaghi, Mobin; Martínez, Ignacio Lamata; Jirotka,
    Marina; Williams, Martin S.; Blakeborough, Anthony
ti: Reconfiguring practice: the interdependence of experimental procedure and
    computing infrastructure in distributed earthquake engineering.
so: Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A, Math. Phys. Eng. Sci. 368, No. 1926,
    4073-4088 (2010).
py: 2010
pu: The Royal Society, London
la: EN
cc: 
ut: distributed hybrid testing; earthquake engineering; workplace studies;
    requirements engineering; e-research; usability
ci: 
li: doi:10.1098/rsta.2010.0140
ab: Summary: When transitioning local laboratory practices into distributed
    environments, the interdependent relationship between experimental
    procedure and the technologies used to execute experiments becomes
    highly visible and a focal point for system requirements. We present an
    analysis of ways in which this reciprocal relationship is reconfiguring
    laboratory practices in earthquake engineering as a new computing
    infrastructure is embedded within three laboratories in order to
    facilitate the execution of shared experiments across geographically
    distributed sites. The system has been developed as part of the UK
    Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation e-Research project, which
    links together three earthquake engineering laboratories at the
    universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Oxford. We consider the ways in
    which researchers have successfully adapted their local laboratory
    practices through the modification of experimental procedure so that
    they may meet the challenges of coordinating distributed earthquake
    experiments.
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