Workshop: SoCS Doctoral Consortium and PI Meeting

这笔资金用于支持将于2012年7月举行的NSF社会计算系统（SoCS）项目的博士研讨会和主要研究者（pi）会议。所有通过2010年、2011年和2012年SoCS项目资助的pi和合作pi将被邀请参加，以及其他一些杰出的研究人员。这些pi将在新兴的社会计算系统研究领域相互分享想法和见解，其具体目标是帮助加强新生的研究社区。在pi会议开始之前，将举行博士研讨会。参与的学生将体验一整天的博士研究报告和讨论，由不同的经验丰富的教师指导。学术价值:人与计算机以社会智能方式共同工作的系统代表了一种新的计算形式，它将传统计算的挑战（例如，算法，信息表示，信息获取，数据质量）与人类交互的挑战（例如，认知，社会交互，文化，学习）以及与人与计算机结合相关的一系列新挑战(例如，关于人类知识和能力的计算机推理，社会智能人机交互，社会计算)。几十年来，个人和团体一直在研究这一领域的特定问题，但这项工作往往是在与现有领域相关的研究口袋中进行的，不幸的是，这些研究口袋彼此孤立。正如NSF社会计算系统项目的介绍所说明的那样，有充分的理由相信，社会计算系统的广泛工作将受益于交叉受精，并将不同的研究人员聚集到一个有意义的社区。SoCS博士研讨会和PI会议是这个过程中的一个步骤。从事社会科学研究的博士生面临着许多挑战，包括定义跨越计算和人类因素的研究，但也为他们的研究确定有意义的评估（通常在缺乏密切先例的情况下），并定位他们的研究以满足学科论文委员会的要求。博士研讨会将帮助学生完善他们的论文项目，使他们能够更好地为解决这些智力挑战做出贡献，并帮助他们建立博士生和更多资深研究人员的社会网络，以支持他们的职业生涯。PI会议将以在不同学科背景的研究人员之间建立共同点的教程为特色。一系列小型海报会议将允许项目负责人参与其他社会服务委员会资助项目的新成果，并获得对自己工作的反馈。更广泛的影响：在组织中成功部署计算机系统的许多最大挑战归结为使技术适应人类组织的困难，反之亦然。社会科学领域的发展将直接创造新的知识和理解，如何更成功地管理社会（人类）组织和他们用来更有效地协同工作的计算机工具之间的关系。这种新的认识有可能直接使各种各样的信息技术用户受益。博士生的发展本身就具有更广泛的影响。由于PI会议的结果，参与者将处于更有利的地位进行社会责任研究。新的合作和新的拨款提案是两个预期的具体成果。

This is funding to support a doctoral symposium and meeting of the Principle Investigators (PIs) for the NSF Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) program that will be held in July 2012. All PIs and co-PIs funded through the 2010, 2011, and 2012 SoCS programs will be invited to attend, as well as a few other distinguished researchers. The PIs will share ideas and insights with each other about research in the emerging new area of social computational systems, with the specific goal of helping to strengthen the nascent research community. A doctoral symposium will be held prior to the beginning of the PIs meeting. Participating students will experience a full day of presentations and discussions of doctoral research, mentored by a diverse set of experienced faculty.Intellectual merit: Systems in which people and computers work together in a socially intelligent manner represent a new form of computing that brings together the challenges of traditional computing (e.g., algorithms, information representation, information acquisition, data quality) with those of human interaction (e.g., cognition, social interaction, culture, learning) and indeed a whole host of new challenges related to the combination of humans and computers (e.g., computer reasoning about human knowledge and abilities, socially-intelligent human-computer interaction, social computing). Individuals and groups have been working on particular problems in this space for decades, but this work has often been carried out in research pockets connected to existing fields, and unfortunately isolated from each other. As the introduction of the NSF SoCS program illustrates, there is good reason to believe that the widespread work in social-computational systems would benefit from cross-fertilization and from bringing together diverse researchers into a meaningful community. The SoCS doctorial symposium and PI meeting is one step in that process. Doctoral students pursing SoCS research face numerous challenges, including defining research that spans computing and human elements, but also identifying meaningful evaluation for their research (often in the absence of close precedents) and positioning their research to fulfill the requirements of disciplinary dissertation committees. The doctoral symposium will help students hone their dissertation projects so that they can make better contributions to the solution of these intellectual challenges, and also help them build a social network of fellow doctoral students and more senior researchers to support their careers. The PI meeting will feature tutorials that build common ground among researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds. A series of small poster sessions will allow PIs to engage with the emerging results of other SoCS-funded projects and get feedback on their own work.Broader impacts: Many of the biggest challenges in successfully deploying computer systems in organizations come down to the difficulty of adapting technology to human organizations and vice versa. The development of the SoCS field will directly create new knowledge and understanding in how to more successfully manage the relationship between social (human) organizations and the computer tools they use to work together more effectively. This new understanding has the potential to directly benefit a wide variety of users of information technology. The development of doctoral students is itself a key broader impact. As a result of the PI Meeting, participants will be in a stronger position to do SoCS research. New collaborations and new grant proposals are two anticipated concrete outcomes.