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

ITR：信息技术和职业身份：虚拟化影响的比较研究

• 批准号: 0220347
• 负责人: Sherry Turkle
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-10-01 至 2005-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0220347&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: ITR; Information; Technologies; Professional; Identity

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.

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，使人们有可能以新的方式观看和了解，从而改变从业者的思维方式。这个项目将探索科学和工程专业人员经历的这些过程，以及这些新技术如何重新塑造他们的专业身份。将考察从业人员使用模拟和可视化技术的五个专业领域：在深水中进行远程机器人工作的考古学家；运行模拟的武器科学家；为大脑成像的神经科学家；使用原子力显微镜分析纳米颗粒的物理化学家；以及在虚拟世界中建造建筑的建筑师。这些方法包括实地访谈、口述历史和研讨会。将为进一步的研究和教学开发基本问题、方法和技术。还预计专业实践将以一种有助于研究人员和设计人员开发更适当技术的方式加以说明。