Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multi-Sited Case Study of the Processes Leading to the Convergence of Competing Visions for Augmented Reality Technologies

博士论文研究：增强现实技术竞争愿景融合过程的多地点案例研究

• 批准号: 1330297
• 负责人: Tarleton Gillespie
• 金额: $ 1.51万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1330297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Multi; Sited

OverviewThis STS Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant supports research to develop an empirical understanding of communities that create and advance augmented reality technologies, meaning any technology that combines real and virtual objects, superimposed in real time and in three-dimensional space such as Google's Project Glass. Many such devices have already emerged promising dramatic transformation across multiple domains such as medicine, tourism, education, manufacturing, national security, law enforcement, and entertainment. To date, however, there has been little empirical research into the communities that create and advance this technology.Intellectual MeritThe project will map out future visions being advanced by four distinct stakeholder groups important to the production of augmented reality technologies: Academic developers, trade lobbyists, governing organizations, and the media. The project will examine how promises about the future are created and articulated, how these different stakeholder groups interact with each other, and how they attempt to persuade one another to align behind certain visions. The research will utilize both qualitative and quantitative methods; in doing so, it will integrate approaches from communication, sociology, STS, and policy analysis. The goal is to understand the discursive and institutional work that surrounds a rapidly emerging technology and how these promises are created, debated, circulated, and inscribed in the technology.Broader ImpactsInterrogating the claims that shape technology will shed light a number of issues including how ethical, social, and political commitments get built into the discourse surrounding the development of augmented reality technologies, and the processes involved in creating these futures. Doing so will serve to provide new conceptual and empirical resources that can be used to improve science and technology policy and implementation, specifically in assessing the risks and benefits of emerging technologies and potential regulation of the content, access, and use of information technologies. It will also help educate practitioners and the public about the potential benefits and pitfalls of augmented reality technologies.

概述此STS博士论文改进补助金支持研究，以发展创造和推进增强现实技术的社区的经验性理解，这意味着任何技术，结合真实的和虚拟对象，叠加在真实的时间和三维空间，如谷歌的眼镜项目。许多这样的设备已经出现，在多个领域，如医疗，旅游，教育，制造业，国家安全，执法和娱乐等领域带来了巨大的变革。然而，迄今为止，几乎没有对创造和推进这项技术的社区进行实证研究。智力价值该项目将绘制出对增强现实技术生产至关重要的四个不同利益相关者群体所推进的未来愿景：学术开发者，贸易游说者，管理组织和媒体。该项目将研究关于未来的承诺是如何创造和表达的，这些不同的利益相关者群体如何相互作用，以及他们如何试图说服彼此支持某些愿景。该研究将利用定性和定量方法;在这样做时，它将整合通信，社会学，STS和政策分析的方法。我们的目标是了解围绕着一项迅速崛起的技术的话语和制度工作，以及这些承诺是如何被创造、辩论、传播和铭刻在技术中的。更广泛的影响询问塑造技术的主张将揭示一些问题，包括道德、社会和政治承诺如何融入围绕增强现实技术发展的话语中，以及创造这些未来的过程这样做将有助于提供新的概念和经验资源，可用于改善科学和技术政策和执行，特别是评估新兴技术的风险和效益以及对信息技术的内容、获取和使用的潜在监管。它还将有助于教育从业者和公众关于增强现实技术的潜在好处和陷阱。