CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Repair, Maintenance and Sustainability: Enhancing Sustainability by Strengthening the Design/Repair Nexus

CHS：小型：协作研究：维修、维护和可持续性：通过加强设计/维修关系来增强可持续性

• 批准号: 1423074
• 负责人: Daniela Rosner
• 金额: $ 20.17万
• 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: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1423074&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Repair

This project will advance core understanding of maintenance and repair practices and connect these to long-standing concerns around the design, innovation, and sustainability of new computational tools and infrastructures. Technology maintenance and repair constitute central elements in the long-term impact and sustainability of computing tools and infrastructures. While there is tremendous need for understanding their effects on engineering development, learning, and technological change, maintenance and repair have been systematically underrepresented in human-computer research to date. By improving the design-repair nexus, this project seeks not only to study sustainability but also enhance it. Pedagogically, it develops new repair-centered teaching and learning strategies for education in engineering and the social sciences.Deploying a mix of ethnographic, institutional, and participatory methods, the research team will explore and enhance the design-repair nexus across three crucial sites: (1) the rapidly growing amateur repair movements in North America and Europe; (2) global circulations of repair knowledge and innovation within livelihood repair communities in the global South (represented through field studies in Bangladesh and Sub-Saharan Africa); and (3) the growing sustainability or green computing programs and operations of large-scale information technology manufacturers. This program of research and engagement will deliver both theoretical and practical benefits, and will extend the reach of computer and information science to previously neglected sites and practices key to emerging real-world computing practices and challenges. This project gathers and extends a growing body of research on maintenance and repair to propose new approaches to the design, innovation and sustainability of computational artifacts and infrastructures. The research makes three central contributions: (1) It charts novel forms of practice, value, and engagement embedded in repair, and their relationship to the better-analyzed practices of industrial engineering, hacking, and other design-centered or interventionist forms of engagement. (2) It will offer new empirical and theoretical insight into the real-world mechanics of sustainability: the practices and institutions by which computing devices, systems and infrastructures are made sustainable in the world (or alternatively, discarded and replaced). (3) It broadens the geographic and analytic reach of computer and information science by examining practices of repair, maintenance and sustainability in sites traditionally marginal to human-computer research that constitute the long tail of real world computing experience.

该项目将促进对维护和维修实践的核心理解，并将其与新的计算工具和基础设施的设计，创新和可持续性有关。 技术维护和维修构成了计算工具和基础设施的长期影响和可持续性的中心要素。 尽管急需了解它们对工程发展，学习和技术变化的影响，但迄今为止，人力计算机研究中的代表性不足。 通过改善设计修复的联系，该项目不仅旨在研究可持续性，而且还提高了它。 从教学上讲，它为工程和社会科学的教育提供了新的以维修为中心的教学策略。剥夺人种志，机构和参与式方法的混合，研究团队将探索和增强三个关键遗址的设计雷巴尔联系，并增强在北美和欧洲北部和欧洲迅速增长的不久的美国人维修运动的运动：（1） （2）全球南方的全球维修知识和创新循环（通过孟加拉国和撒哈拉以南非洲的现场研究代表）； （3）大规模信息技术制造商的可持续性或绿色计算计划的日益增长。 该研究和参与计划将带来理论和实际的好处，并将计算机和信息科学的覆盖范围扩展到以前被忽视的站点和实践，这是新兴的现实世界计算实践和挑战的关键。该项目聚集并扩展了越来越多的维护和维修研究，以提出针对计算文物和基础设施的设计，创新和可持续性的新方法。 这项研究做出了三个核心贡献：（1）它绘制了嵌入了维修中的新型实践，价值和参与形式，以及它们与工业工程，黑客攻击以及其他以设计为中心的或其他以设计为中心或干预主义的参与形式的工业工程，黑客攻击更好的实践的关系。 （2）它将为可持续性的现实世界机制提供新的经验和理论见解：在世界范围内使计算设备，系统和基础设施在世界范围内（或替换，丢弃和替换）的实践和机构。 （3）它通过检查传统上边缘的人力计算机研究的维修，维护和可持续性的实践来扩大计算机和信息科学的地理和分析范围，这些实践构成了现实世界中计算经验的长期尾声。