ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how technology becomes the multidisciplinary link, sustaining relations across domains of scientific expertise that are not centered on human-to-human ties. Representational work is distributed between domain scientists analyzing data and information scientists who produce the means by which those data are analyzed, yet the work of both disciplinary groups never meets in practice. While produced through multidisciplinary collaboration, certain representational technologies can become relatively autonomous of the initial human-to-human relationships responsible for their creation. Through visual output, multidisciplinarity can also be structured through representation tools technologies that continue to carry a history of their development over time. Visualization researchers may very well have a professional interest in the psychology of perception, the biology of the eye and brain or even techniques of illustration. Capturing the arts and design is a particular instance of visualization automation.
