WORKSHOP: Building Capacity for Sociotechnical Innovation in Next-Generation Network Applications

该提案旨在促进学术界和工业界的社会技术研究人员网络，这些研究人员能够开发利用下一代千兆网络基础设施的创新应用程序。这将促进社会科学和计算科学之间新的多学科伙伴关系，这将挑战现有的研究人员，并培养新一代有能力和有信心在这一领域工作的学生。这些应用所涉及的复杂领域，例如为无家可归的公民提供的城市范围内的媒体丰富的社会信息空间，将需要网络科学的根本性进步。新出现的共同进化特性也可能推动以人为中心的计算研究。城市政府的合作伙伴关系使学术研究实验室通常不切实际的部署规模成为可能。这将使在真实的使用环境中，这是推进我们对社会计算的理解必不可少的临界质量的用户规模实验。该项目提出了一个为期两天的原型提案开发研讨会的高潮。 本次研讨会产生的项目将有助于设想一个新的未来，在这个未来中，高带宽连接与重新设计的互联网相结合，实现了新形式的社会互动和数字公民身份。

This proposal seeks to further a network of sociotechnical researchers in academia and industry capable of developing innovative applications that leverage next-generation gigabit networking infrastructure. This will foster new multidisciplinary partnerships between the social and computing sciences that will challenge established researchers and develop a new generation of students capable and confident in working in this area. The complex domains addressed by these applications, for example city-wide, media-rich socialinformation spaces for homeless citizens, will necessitate fundamental advances in network science. The emergent co-evolutionary properties will also likely drive research in human-centered computing. The urban government partnerships enable a scale of deployment typically impractical for academic research labs. This will enable at-scale experimentation with a critical mass of users in authentic usage environments, which is essential for advancing our understanding of social computing.The project proposes a culminating two-day proto-proposal development workshop. The projects that emerge from this workshop will help envision a new future in which high-bandwidth connectivity coupled with a reengineered Internet enables new forms of social interaction and digital citizenship.