HCC: Small: Tools and Mechanisms to Support Civic GeoCampaigns

HCC：小型：支持公民地理运动的工具和机制

• 批准号: 1218826
• 负责人: Loren Terveen
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1218826&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HCC; Small; Tools; Mechanisms; Support

This project will create software infrastructure and sociotechnical mechanisms that let agencies engage the efforts of citizens in order to gather data and even take on small tasks in their local communities. Realizing this aim requires filling significant technological gaps: (1) no robust software infrastructure that enables a broad range of community activities, (2) no general set of incentive mechanisms that organizers can use to attract and motivate citizen participation, and (3) no software tools for organizers to monitor effectiveness and make necessary adjustments.This project takes on these challenges through research on four central topics. First, it will create a general ontology of tasks, coordination mechanisms, incentives, and user interfaces for organizers to define goals. Second, it will develop algorithms to match participants and tasks, and user interfaces for participants to find tasks of interest. The third topic is automated mechanisms and visualization tools for organizers to monitor progress and adjust parameters such as incentives or participation qualifications. Fourth, it will create interfaces for participants to visualize their contributions and view incentives they have earned or are eligible to earn, based on techniques to model users based on their participation. The technical results will be embodied in a software infrastructure which will be deployed and used as a platform for empirical evaluation of the developed algorithms and interaction techniques. The key scientific outcomes of this project will be a general and integrated software infrastructure for social participation efforts, a diverse catalog of incentive mechanisms and guidelines for use, a novel set of task matching and participant recruiting techniques, automated and semi-automated techniques to monitor and dynamically adjust progress, and empirical knowledge of how these novel algorithms and interaction techniques work in practice. The infrastructure developed through this research has great potential for enabling local government agencies to gather much more, accurate, and timely data to inform their decisions. It also can help citizens to become involved with their communities, finding constructive tasks to take on that require differing amounts of skill and time commitments. An even broader potential impact is that the products of this research can help renew the relationship between local governments and citizens, making government more responsive to citizens and giving citizens greater faith in their governments.

该项目将创建软件基础设施和社会技术机制，让各机构参与公民的努力，以收集数据，甚至在当地社区承担小任务。要实现这一目标，就需要填补以下技术上的巨大空白：（1）没有能够开展广泛社群活动的强大的软件基础设施;（2）没有组织者可以用来吸引和激励公民参与的通用激励机制;（3）没有组织者可以用来监测有效性并进行必要调整的软件工具。本项目通过对四个核心课题的研究来应对这些挑战。 首先，它将为组织者创建一个任务、协调机制、激励机制和用户界面的通用本体来定义目标。 其次，它将开发匹配参与者和任务的算法，以及供参与者查找感兴趣任务的用户界面。 第三个主题是自动化机制和可视化工具，供组织者监控进度并调整激励或参与资格等参数。 第四，它将为参与者创建界面，以可视化他们的贡献，并查看他们已经获得或有资格获得的奖励，基于基于用户参与的建模技术。 技术成果将体现在一个软件基础设施中，该基础设施将被部署并用作对所开发的算法和交互技术进行经验评估的平台。该项目的关键科学成果将是一个通用的和集成的软件基础设施，用于社会参与的努力，激励机制和使用指南的多样化目录，一套新的任务匹配和参与者招募技术，自动化和半自动化技术，以监测和动态调整进展，以及这些新算法和交互技术在实践中如何工作的经验知识。通过这项研究开发的基础设施具有很大的潜力，使地方政府机构能够收集更多，准确和及时的数据，为他们的决策提供信息。 它还可以帮助公民参与其社区，找到需要不同技能和时间承诺的建设性任务。 一个更广泛的潜在影响是，这项研究的成果可以帮助恢复地方政府与公民之间的关系，使政府更好地回应公民的要求，并使公民对政府更有信心。