Authors:
Diane Sonnenwald, Mary Whitton, Kelly Maglaughlin
Today scientific collaboratories provide remote access to scientific data, specialized instruments and documents, as well as group work tools and information and communications tools, to support collaboration among scientists. While a number of collaboratories have been developed, few have been formally evaluated. Fundamental questions have yet to be answered: Can distributed scientific research produce high quality results? Do the capabilities afforded by collaboratories outweigh their disadvantages from scientists' perspectives? Our goal was to address these questions by evaluating a specific scientific collaboratory. The nanoManipulator Collaboratory The collaboratory system we evaluated allows distributed, collaborative access to a nanoManipulator (nM),…
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