Second Young Investigators Summer Research Institute of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems

第二届青年调查人员暑期研究所将是社会技术系统科学联合会(CSST)的一项持续活动。CSST诞生于由NSF赞助的一系列研讨会，涉及社会信息学、社会计算、CSCW、计算社会科学、人机交互和信息科学等不同领域的40多名教职员工。讲习班与会者认识到人与技术或社会-技术系统相互作用的研究日益重要，建议将科技委作为促进和支持关于技术变革的社会方面的重要研究的一个机制。一项确定的高度优先事项是，甚至在正式设立科学和技术科学委员会之前，就开始以进入社会技术系统研究领域的人为对象，每年举办一系列暑期研究机构。这项提案将支持将于2009年7月在密歇根大学校园内举行的第二个此类研究所。首届学院非常成功地吸引了137份申请，选定的班级有31名参与者和13名学院教职员工。学生参与者将包括最多30名高级博士生和从事社会技术系统研究的终身教职前教师。最多15名讲师将从高级教员中挑选，包括参加最初由NSF支持的关于社会技术系统的研讨会。这个项目将为研究所所有参与者的旅行、饮食和住宿提供支持。智力价值研究所的重点将放在参与者的研究项目上(例如，博士生的论文)。该研究所为这些方案提供了一个机会，通过与有经验的研究人员进行智力交流来形成这些方案，并通过与其他年轻研究人员的合作来加强这些方案。此外，该研究所将帮助在美国和世界各地传播有关社会技术系统研究的思想。博大影响该研究所将继续汇聚最优秀的下一代社会技术系统研究人员。这使他们能够在他们自己之间以及与几名高级研究人员建立一个社会网络，这将在他们的专业发展和社会技术系统研究领域的演变中发挥重要作用。研训所学员的多样性(例如，机构、学科、地域、性别、少数群体地位)将在学员职业生涯的关键阶段拓宽学员的视野。

The Second Young Investigators Summer Research Institute will be a continuing activity of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST). CSST was born out of a series of workshops sponsored by NSF involving over forty faculty members in diverse fields, such as social informatics, social computing, CSCW, computational social science, HCI, and information science. Workshop participants, recognizing the growing importance of research on the interplay of humans and technology, or socio-technical systems, proposed the CSST as a mechanism for promoting and supporting important research on social aspects of technological change. An identified high priority, even in advance of the formal creation of CSST, was initiation of an annual series of summer research institutes targeted at people entering the field of sociotechnical systems research. This proposal will support the second of these institutes to be held on the campus of the University of Michigan in July, 2009. The inaugural institute was very successful attracting 137 applications with a selected class of 31 participants and thirteen institute faculty. Student participants will include up to 30 advanced doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty doing research on socio-technical systems. Up to fifteen instructors will be drawn from senior faculty, including participants in the original NSF-supported workshops on sociotechnical systems. This project will support the travel, meals, and accommodations for all Institute participants.Intellectual MeritThe focus of the Institute will be on participants' research programs (e.g., dissertation for doctoral students). The Institute provides both an opportunity for these programs to be shaped through intellectual exchange with experienced researchers as well as enhanced through collaboration with other young researchers. In addition, the Institute will help spread ideas about research on socio-technical systems within the US and around the world.Broader ImpactThe Institute will continue to bring together the best of the next generation of socio-technical system researchers. This allows them to create a social network both among themselves and with several senior researchers, which will play a major role in their professional development and in the evolution of the field of socio-technical systems research. The diversity of Institute participants (e.g., institutional, disciplinary, geographic, gender, minority group status), will broaden participant's perspectives at a critical stage in their careers.