Workshop: Media Systems -- Connecting Computer Science and the Digital Humanities

计算机科学正在通过启用新的媒体形式来启用新的业务，新的教育方法和新的文化表达形式。但计算机科学本身作为一门学科，传统上并不关注媒体。为了继续和扩大过去20年来计算媒体发展的显著进步，计算机科学必须与其他拥有更多媒体专业知识的领域建立跨学科的桥梁，从中可以出现新的研究方法，指导理论和评估方法。这种联系的潜在影响是巨大的。将计算机科学的技术创新模型与媒体知识相结合，可以提供远远超过今天简单借用表面元素所能获得的文化和经济利益。它可以使交互式教育软件建立在从数千年的戏剧中获得的结构性见解的基础上。从科学数据到家族史，展示和发现软件可以体现伟大艺术家和设计师作品中的构图经验。有意义的新形式的互动讲故事可以建立在从解释文学和电影中获得的经验的基础上。简而言之，在媒体技术领域开辟新天地的科学过程可能会有强大的新方法来评估基于我们共同文化遗产的研究方向和进展。为了实现这样的未来，一个重要的跨学科联系是与艺术和设计社区，他们已经在这些领域开发了知识，并且已经与计算机科学家合作的从业者社区。另一个重要的联系是与人文学科的联系，但不幸的是，这种联系还没有建立起来。尽管人文学科有一些最好的理解媒体的方法，尽管新兴的数字人文社区与计算系统的专业知识，媒体为重点的计算机科学和人文之间的连接尚未完全催化。本次研讨会将是建立强大联系的重要一步，确定了要追求的第一个研究问题和合作模式。这些新连接的潜在长期影响很大，特别是在美国拥有领导地位和重要研发投资的领域。

Computer science is enabling new businesses, new educational approaches, and new forms of cultural expression through enabling new forms of media. But computer science itself, as a discipline, has not traditionally focused on media. In order to continue and expand the remarkable progress of the last two decades of computational media development, computer science must build interdisciplinary bridges with other areas that have greater media expertise, from which new research methods, guiding theories, and evaluation approaches can emerge.The potential impacts of such connections are great. Combining computer science's model of technical innovation with media knowledge could offer cultural and economic benefits far beyond those that can be attained by the simple borrowing of surface elements more common today. It could enable interactive educational software that builds on structural insights gained from thousands of years of drama. Presentation and discovery software for understanding everything from scientific data to family history could embody composition lessons from the work of great artists and designers. Meaningful new forms of interactive storytelling could build on the experience gained from interpreting literature and cinema. In short, the scientific process of breaking new ground in media technology could have powerful new methods for evaluating research directions and progress that are grounded in our shared cultural heritage.For enabling such a future, one important interdisciplinary connection is that with arts and design communities, who have developed knowledge in these areas and communities of practitioners already collaborating with computer scientists. Another important connection, which is unfortunately less well established, is that with the humanities. Despite the fact that the humanities have some of the best-developed approaches for understanding media, and despite the emerging digital humanities community with expertise in work with computational systems, the connection between media-focused computer science and the humanities has not yet fully catalyzed. This workshop will be an important step toward building a robust connection, defining the first research questions and collaboration models to be pursued. The potential long-term impacts of these new connections are high, especially in areas where the U.S. has a leadership position and important investments in research and development.