Crediting as a Socio-Technical Practice
Poster presented at WASP Winter Conference, Örebro, January 2026.
Abstract
This poster explores crediting in science museums as a socio-technical practice. Science museums are a rich environment for visualization research where researchers have designed new visualizations, interaction modalities, and educational approaches. But they are also socio-technical places where power, context, and organizational structures influence how science communication is produced and perceived.
Drawing on a collaboration with a local science museum and an interview study with science museum staff and leadership, this work examines how credit, authorship, and invisible labor are negotiated in the context of interactive digital exhibits. The results reveal crediting of interactive exhibits to be a complex, situated challenge — and an opportunity to reframe credit as a socio-technical design space where visualization can make visible not only the outcomes of science, but the processes and people that produce it.
@misc{blomgren2026,
author = {Blomgren, Kate},
title = {{Crediting as a Socio-Technical Practice}},
note = {WASP Winter Conference, Örebro},
year = {2026}
}