ABSTRACT In contemporary laboratory workstations, automation promises a technological fix for producing more robust workflows. By insulating the experiment from tacit or embodied knowledge, it is expected to produce more reliable output. This apparent tension between trustworthy disembodied protocols and the unreliable human factor should not, however, be taken at face value. Instrument operators routinely face uncertainties and instrument opacity, and their concerns may be further aggravated when processes are automated. In some contexts, therefore, researchers cultivate such embodied practices precisely to assure themselves of the reliability of automated instruments and protocols. This qualitative study of research practice in a multi-disciplinary research group in physics and materials science shows that researchers complement instrument readings with ‘somatic vigilance’, a set of laboratory practices that emphasize hands-on instrument knowledge, material witnessing and rely on sensory experience to monitor experimental processes. Equating physical and epistemic proximity to an instrument, operators use these techniques to monitor their instruments and to manage their own expectations. Operators’ reliance on auditory information and sonic skills to monitor their instruments and their environment illustrates the value of somatic vigilance on the laboratory’s work-floor. Connecting scholarship in science and technology studies on trust management and embodied practice, somatic vigilance calls attention to the continuous maintenance of both instruments and user expectations as well as the situated and often embodied techniques that are required to manage trust in instruments. More than an unreliable human factor, it suggests that researchers instead, conversely, consider embodied knowledge a way to fix automation.

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实验性等离子体物理的身体警觉性和声波技巧

摘要在当代实验室工作站中，自动化有望带来技术上的改进，以产生更强大的工作流程。通过将实验与隐性知识或隐含知识隔离开，有望产生更可靠的输出。但是，不应将可信赖的具体化协议与不可靠的人为因素之间的这种明显的紧张关系当做是表面的。仪器操作员通常会面对不确定性和仪器不透明性，而当过程自动化时，他们的担忧可能会进一步加剧。因此，在某些情况下，研究人员会精确地培养这种具体化的实践，以确保自动化仪器和协议的可靠性。对物理学和材料科学多学科研究小组的研究实践进行的定性研究表明，研究人员通过“身体警惕”（一种强调实践知识，材料见证和依靠感官体验的实验室实践）对仪器读数进行补充。监控实验过程。操作员在物理上和认知上都接近仪器，因此使用这些技术来监视仪器并管理自己的期望。操作员依靠听觉信息和声音技能来监视他们的仪器和环境，这说明了机体警惕对实验室工作人员的价值。将有关信任管理和具体实践的科学技术研究奖学金联系起来，警惕性要求人们注意仪器的持续维护和用户期望，以及管理仪器信任所需要的常驻技术。相反，它不仅是一个不可靠的人为因素，还表明研究人员反而将嵌入的知识视为一种解决自动化的方法。