ITR: Information Technologies and Professional Identity: A Comparative Study of the Effects of Virtuality

模拟和可视化技术已经成为当代科学、工程、设计和医学的基础，使观察和认识的新方式成为可能，从而改变了从业者的思维方式。 该项目将探索这些过程，因为他们是由科学和工程专业人士和这些新技术重新配置他们的专业身份的方式所经历的。 从业者使用模拟和可视化技术的五个专业领域将被检查：考古学家在深水中远程工作;武器科学家运行模拟;神经科学家成像大脑;物理化学家用原子力显微镜分析纳米粒子;和建筑师在虚拟世界中建设。 方法包括实地采访，口述历史和研讨会。 基本问题，方法和技术将被开发用于进一步的研究和教学。 还预计专业实践将以一种有助于研究人员和设计师开发更合适技术的方式得到阐明。

Simulation and visualization technologies that have become fundamental to contemporary science, engineering, design, and medicine have made possible new ways of seeing and knowing and thereby can change the way practitioners think. This project will explore these processes as they are experienced by scientific and engineering professionals and the ways in which these new technologies reconfigure their professional identities. Five professional fields in which practitioners use simulation and visualization technologies will be examined: archaeologists working telerobotically in deep water; weapons scientists running simulations; neuroscientists imaging the brain; physical chemists analyzing nanoparticles with atomic force microscopy; and architects building in the virtual world. The methods include field interviews, oral histories, and workshops. Fundamental questions, approaches and techniques will be developed for further research and teaching. It is also expected that professional practice will be illuminated in a way that is helpful to researchers and designers in the development of ever more appropriate technologies.