VOSS: The Roles of Awareness and Social Networks in the Initiation and Sustenance of Research-Oriented Virtual Organizations

VOSS：意识和社交网络在研究型虚拟组织的发起和维持中的作用

• 批准号: 0942659
• 负责人: Y. Connie Yuan
• 金额: $ 14.78万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0942659&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: VOSS; Roles; Awareness; Social; Networks

The objective of this project is to understand the role of awareness in the initiation and sustenance of research-oriented virtual organizations. Research-oriented virtual organizations enable: 1) interaction between researchers with diverse perspectives who might not otherwise work together; 2) the sharing of expensive and scarce resources; and 3) novel ways of accomplishing tasks and solving problems. Despite these advantages, one frequent problem encountered by members of research-oriented virtual organizations is persistent difficulty in communicating and coordinating with remote colleagues. One key reason for this is that many research-oriented virtual organizations lack the capacity to support effective awareness and interaction among their members as projects progress.This work builds on theories of social networks and transactive memory as well as theories of interpersonal awareness in focusing on what we call ?awareness networks? ? that is, networks of individuals who, at some level of detail, keep track of each other. The work focuses on 3 key issues: 1) developing a novel two-staged approach to awareness that bridges the current theoretical and practical gap between the initiation of research-oriented virtual organizations and sustained effective work; 2) developing an understanding of the roles of network ties in interpersonal awareness that allow us to apply a network- and relationship-based understanding of individuals to the larger problem of designing tools to provide interpersonal awareness and expertise information in research-oriented virtual organizations and communities; 3) extending transactive memory theory to include multiple dimensions of awareness beyond simple knowledge of expertise distribution. This work will result in new theories and technologies that inform and enhance our ability to support virtual organizations that address key challenges confronting society. Prospective and current ROVO members will be better able to locate each other, coordinate and collaborate toward successful joint outcomes.

这个项目的目的是了解意识在启动和维持研究型虚拟组织中的作用。以研究为导向的虚拟组织使：1）具有不同观点的研究人员之间的互动，否则他们可能不会一起工作; 2）共享昂贵和稀缺的资源; 3）完成任务和解决问题的新方法。尽管有这些优势，一个经常遇到的问题，面向研究的虚拟组织的成员是持续的沟通和协调与远程同事的困难。一个关键的原因是，许多研究型虚拟组织缺乏能力，以支持有效的意识和互动的成员作为项目的进展。这项工作建立在理论的社交网络和交互记忆以及理论的人际意识，集中在我们所谓的？网络意识？?也就是说，个人网络，在某种程度上，他们相互跟踪。本研究的重点是3个关键问题：1）开发一种新颖的两阶段意识方法，以弥合当前研究型虚拟组织的启动和持续有效工作之间的理论和实践差距; 2）发展对人际关系中网络纽带作用的理解，使我们能够应用网络-和关系-基于个人的理解，以更大的问题，设计工具，以提供人际意识和专业知识的信息，以研究为导向的虚拟组织和社区; 3）扩展交互记忆理论，包括多个层面的意识超越简单的知识专长分布。这项工作将产生新的理论和技术，为我们提供信息并提高我们支持虚拟组织的能力，以应对社会面临的关键挑战。未来的和现有的ROVO成员将能够更好地相互定位，协调和合作，以取得成功的联合成果。