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Bootstrapping as the emergence of phenomena
and infrastructure
Elena Parmiggiani Dept. of Computer and Information Science, NTNU
Trondheim, Norway
III workshop, Oslo, Norway 13th-16th Oct 2014
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Real-time subsea environmental monitoring in the oil and gas sector
• Go North?
• Environmentally sensitive and unknown areas
• Integrated Operations: – Integrated work processes – Fiber-optic cables – Collaborative technologies
• Uncertainty:
– What is at risk? How?
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• NorthOil: development of an integrated infrastructure for real-time subsea environmental monitoring
– What happens in the early stages?
• Information infrastructure studies (Schmidt 2013):
– CSCW: focus on regulating local practices
– STS: broad understanding of II (classification systems; conventions;…)
– IS: managing the interplay between the local and the global
• Need to chart the emerging complexities and side effects because the local/global distinction has been removed (Ellingsen et al. 2013)
Real-time subsea environmental monitoring in the oil and gas sector
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Bootstrapping
• IS, design-centered perspective: attracting a critical mass of users for direct usefulness (see e.g. Hanseth and Aanestad 2010) – Chicken-egg problem (Hanseth and Lyytinen 2010) – Incremental stakeholder mobilization (Aanestad and Jensen 2011)
• STS: conjuring a set of meaningful parameters from situated
realities to ensure their inclusion in a global picture (Bowker 1994) – Very general, requires operationalization
• Bootstrapping as a process to initiate new II by leveraging a few (economically and/or politically) strategic solutions in a situated reality so that the direct relevance and meaning for key stakeholders is visible – local/global – long term/short term
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The open ocean observatory:
Where oil and gas find LoVe
Lofoten-Vesterålen
NorthOil + technology vendors + Institute for Marine Research NB: No operations in LoVe Get a baseline of environmental behavior 250 m deep 15–20 km off the coast
http://lovedev.azurewebsites.net/
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The LoVe project
Pictures source: http://lovedev.azurewebsites.net
Ca 2007: first tests in EU projects
2011: Financed by NorthOil production and development dept.
2013: Fibre-optic cable real-time data; web portal
2014: Inclusion in large-scale corporate project to set
up a cross-organizational infrastructure for environmental monitoring
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The LoVe portal
http://lovedev.azurewebsites.net/
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• Commercial interest for cod and herring
• Materiality of nature and technology – Pointing the acoustic devices: the swim bladder
– Setting of acoustic devices vs. size of target (larvae, eggs)
– Injection of model-inferred data on eggs and larvae
“The fish is detectable but we have no models; for larvae we have models but we cannot detect
them!”
(environmental advisor)
Placing the sensors: from corals to fish, larvae, and eggs
E.g., if frequency = 70 KHz, poor detection of objects < 2cm (source: internal documentation)
SWIM BLADDER
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Classifying the water column?
Chromatogram: – not understandable for
the fishermen of Lofoten-Vesterålen
So what?
Dep
th
Time
http://lovedev.azurewebsites.net/
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Classifying: The «environmental value»
• Classification system of the water column
• Relative concentration of biomass
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Bootstrapping… how? (1/2)
“So we will do the best out of what’s out there [to make] the technology ready for having more, more [observatories], more
information, and to create more detailed map layers, and detailed information. But if you have the infrastructure ready, it’s ready for
doing that” (environmental advisor) • Local developments and global context are inextricably entwined
– Unpredictable consequences
• Materially mediated solution to balance: – Local measurements / global picture: the environmental value – Long-term environmental behavior / real-time measurements
• Get away with essentialist accounts of II innovation
– Bottom up or top down
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Bootstrapping… how? (2/2)
• Choosing a “clean” slate: LoVe
• As few sensors as possible; off-the-shelf devices
• Trustworthiness – Enrollment of local stakeholders: fishermen in Lofoten-Vesterålen
“We can see fish, so imagine that local fisherman can go in there and look: ‘Is there a point in going to the sea today? Do they stay at home?’”
(environmental advisor) – Feeding the measurements into easily understandable classifications
• Bootstrapping the naturalization process – Epistemic work of discovering evolving objects (Subsea environment?
Environmental risk?) • Bootstrapping work construction of risk assessment practices
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• Co-construction of (‘natural’) phenomena and the infrastructure
– Sensors, phenomenon, and infrastructure develop together and get entwined in practice
– Challenge to established notions of installed base, also part of this cycle
The point?
New needs
New measurements
New problems
New phenomena
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Thanks!
Elena Parmiggiani Dept. of Computer and Information Science, NTNU Trondheim, Norway III workshop, Oslo, Norway 13th-16th Oct 2014