Collaborative Research: EAGER: A Virtual eXchange to Support Networks of Creativity and Innovation Amongst Science, Engineering, Arts and Design (XSEAD)

合作项目：EIGER：支持科学、工程、艺术和设计(XSEAD)知识创新网络的虚拟交流美国在研究和教育方面面临的最大挑战之一是如何从根本上鼓励所有部门的创新，并产生新的解决方案来应对全球挑战。越来越多的研究证据和行业创新(即移动计算、社交媒体)证实，包括科学和艺术领域在内的广泛跨学科合作在催生计算机科学、工程和科学方面的创造力和创新方面具有巨大潜力。一个由科学家、工程师、艺术家和设计师组成的新兴混合型社区正在进行创新和创业研究，以促进新知识的发展，并为包括健康、教育和环境变化在内的社会挑战提出整体解决方案。然而，这个新兴的跨学科社区在努力在学术系统和历史偏见的限制下自我组织的努力中继续面临问题；它继续寻求一种充满活力和协同作用的研究和外联交流。在吸取经验教训的基础上，将建立一个新的虚拟交流中心，以支持科学、工程、艺术和设计之间的创造力和创新网络(XSEAD)。XSEAD项目将满足跨学科科学-艺术界的以下迫切需求：建立一个对该领域的一致看法，并提供一个吸引企业家和行业的机制；为多模式记录研究成果创造一个场所；提供先前和当前研究成果的广泛数据库；允许迅速传播研究成果；促进形成合作和专业分社区；记录和帮助发展科学-艺术课程的努力和评估方法；为科学-艺术职业提供背景和支助机制；建立证据表明跨学科科学-艺术融合的社会影响。XSEAD的软件工程开发组件将在三个技术领域贡献更多的知识：内容组织(提高大型多媒体数据库动态、基于使用、组织的算法的有效性)；推荐算法(促进使用多关系结构提供有效的推荐)；社区动力学(开发新的算法，以提取在线社交网络中有意义的交互的结构)。Broader ImpactXSEAD将向普通非专家受众展示跨科学和艺术的协作研究的演变和潜力。它将吸引年轻人的兴趣，他们正在寻找将科学和工程的严谨与艺术和设计的创造力和反思相结合的职业。它将为寻求课程发展范例的教师和非正式学习社区、寻找更多机构机会以介绍和支持其正在进行的工作的积极实践者、发展相关跨学科努力的学者以及寻求交叉培训专业知识的商业公司提供服务。XSEAD将使科学界和艺术界之间能够进行快速的研究交流和深入的同行评议学术研究，并提供一个独特的、深入参与的途径，进入一个巨大的、富有创造力的知识库。XSEAD将帮助促进制定以人为本的复杂社会问题解决方案的新模式(即具有成本效益的保健和健康、全球化和冲突、适应性K-12学习、电子通信和安全)。这些范例将结合人类知识的广泛和不同领域的知识。

Collaborative Projects: EAGER: A virtual eXchange to support networks of creativity and innovation amongst Science, Engineering, Arts and Design (XSEAD)Intellectual MeritOne of the greatest challenges facing the United States in research and education is how to fundamentally encourage innovation across all sectors and spawn new solutions to address global challenges. Increasing research evidence and industrial innovations (i.e. mobile computing, social media) confirm that broad interdisciplinary collaborations that include both science and art fields have great potential for spawning creativity and innovation in computer science, engineering and the sciences. An emerging hybrid community of scientists, engineers, artists and designers is producing innovative and entrepreneurial research that advances new knowledge and proposes holistic solutions to societal challenges including health, education and environmental change. Yet, this burgeoning interdisciplinary community continues to face problems in its efforts to self-organize among constraints imposed by academic systems and historical biases; it continues to seek a dynamic and synergizing research and outreach exchange.Building upon lessons-learned, a new Virtual eXchange to support networks of creativity and innovation amongst Science, Engineering, Art and Design (XSEAD) will be developed. The XSEAD project will address the following urgent needs of the interdisciplinary science-art community: establish a cohesive view of the field and provide a mechanism to attract entrepreneurs and industry; create a venue for multimodal documentation of research outcomes; provide extensive databases of prior and current research; allow rapid dissemination of research outcomes; facilitate forming of collaborations and specialized sub-communities; document and help evolve science-art curricula efforts and evaluation approaches; provide context and support mechanisms for science-arts careers; establish evidence of the societal impact of interdisciplinary science-art integration. The software engineering development components of XSEAD will contribute further knowledge in three technical areas: Content organization (improve the effectiveness of algorithms for dynamic, usage based, organization of large multimedia databases); Recommendation algorithms (promote the use of multi-relational structures for providing effective recommendations); Community dynamics (develop novel algorithms to extract structures that encode meaningful interactions in online social networks).Broader ImpactXSEAD will expose general non-expert audiences to the evolution and potential of collaborative research across science and arts. It will attract the interest of young people searching for careers that combine the rigor of science and engineering with the creativity and reflection of arts and design. It will serve teachers and informal learning communities seeking exemplars for curricular development, active practitioners looking for further institutional opportunities to present and support their ongoing work, academics developing related interdisciplinary efforts and commercial companies seeking cross-trained expertise. XSEAD will enable rapid research exchange and in-depth peer-reviewed scholarship between the worlds of science and art and provide a unique and deeply engaging inroad to a vast and creative repository. XSEAD will help promote new paradigms for developing human centric solutions to complex societal problems (i.e. cost effective health and wellness, globalization and conflict, adaptive K-12 learning, electronic communication and security). These paradigms will combine knowledge across broad and diverse areas of human knowledge.