SoCS: Workshop: Principal Investigator Meeting 2013

SoCS：研讨会：2013 年首席研究员会议

• 批准号: 1257254
• 负责人: David McDonald
• 金额: $ 9.81万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 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: 2012-09-15 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1257254&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SoCS; Workshop; Principal; Investigator; Meeting

Project description: This is funding to support the third annual doctoral symposium and meeting of the Principal Investigators (PIs) for the NSF Social-Computational Systems (SoCS) program that will be held in the summer of 2013. 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. Researchers 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 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.

项目简介：这笔资金用于支持将于2013年夏天举行的NSF社会计算系统(SOCS)项目的第三届年度博士研讨会和首席研究员会议。所有通过2010年、2011年和2012年SOCS计划资助的PI和共同PI将被邀请参加，以及其他一些杰出的研究人员。研究人员将相互分享关于社会计算系统这一新兴新领域研究的想法和见解，具体目标是帮助加强新生的研究社区。在PIS会议开始之前，将举行一次博士研讨会。参与的学生将体验一整天的博士研究报告和讨论，由一组不同的有经验的教师指导。智力优势：人和计算机以社交智能方式一起工作的系统代表了一种新的计算形式，它将传统计算(例如，算法、信息表示、信息获取、数据质量)的挑战与人类交互(例如，认知、社交、文化、学习)的挑战结合在一起，实际上，与人类和计算机的组合有关的一系列新挑战(例如，关于人类知识和能力的计算机推理，社交智能的人机交互，社交计算)。几十年来，个人和团体一直在这一领域研究特定的问题，但这项工作往往是在与现有领域相连的研究口袋中进行的，不幸的是，这些工作彼此孤立。正如NSF SoCs计划所表明的那样，有充分的理由相信，社会计算系统中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会议是这一过程中的一步。追求SoC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，但也要为他们的研究确定有意义的评估(通常在没有接近的先例的情况下)，以及将他们的研究定位为满足学科论文委员会的要求。博士研讨会将帮助学生磨练他们的论文项目，以便他们能够为解决这些智力挑战做出更好的贡献，并帮助他们建立一个由博士生同伴和更资深的研究人员组成的社交网络，以支持他们的职业生涯。PI会议将以教程为特色，在来自不同学科背景的研究人员之间建立共同点。一系列小型海报会议将允许PI参与其他SoC资助的项目的新兴成果，并获得对他们自己工作的反馈。广泛影响：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。SOCS领域的发展将直接在如何更成功地管理社会(人)组织与它们用来更有效地合作的计算机工具之间的关系方面创造新的知识和理解。这一新的理解有可能直接惠及各种信息技术用户。博士生的发展本身就是一个关键的、更广泛的影响。作为PI会议的结果，与会者将处于更有利的地位来进行SoC研究。新的合作和新的赠款提案是预期的两个具体成果。