Emergent Technologies: New Opportunities to Advance Psychological Research and Science Education

新兴技术：推进心理学研究和科学教育的新机遇

• 批准号: 1456048
• 负责人: Scott Plous
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Wesleyan University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2018-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1456048&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Emergent; Technologies; New; Opportunities; Advance

The Social Psychology Network (SPN) has become one of the most international and heavily used online networks for research and teaching in the social sciences. Most of its web resources, however, were designed before the widespread adoption of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile computers, which are now the most common devices used to access the Internet. To address this problem, the proposed project will advance psychological research and education by redesigning SPN so that its pages, interactive features, databases, and partner sites work with mobile devices. In addition to advancing research and science education through mobile technology, this project will also build on SPN's 18-year record of "giving psychology away," informing social issues, and broadening the participation of underrepresented groups. For example, the creation of mobile-friendly web pages will facilitate usage of the SPN Mentorship Program, in which more than 600 volunteers with doctoral degrees offer free career assistance to students from underrepresented groups. It will also increase access to SPN partner sites such as the Stanford Prison Experiment (PrisonExp.org), the Jigsaw Classroom (Jigsaw.org), and UnderstandingPrejudice.org, each of which focuses on social issues such as protecting human rights, preventing school violence, and reducing prejudice.By refactoring SPN with a "mobile first" design approach, this project will ensure that the Network is interoperable and responsive across a wide array of computing devices, thereby making SPN more accessible and better equipped to serve the field as new mobile technologies continue to claim the future of social networking. This work will be completed in phases, beginning with the recruitment of a mobile design specialist and a technical audit to review elements including SPN's social media usage, search engine optimization, web hosting, server configuration, and choice of programming tools. The redesign and conversion of SPN sites will then begin with relatively small sites such as PrisonExp.org and eInterview.org before developing a new mobile design and programming for SocialPsychology.org. Next will come a redesign of SPN's system of 10,000+ user profiles and member pages, followed by a conversion of other SPN pages and features. In the end, this project will leave the Network well positioned to harness the power of the mobile revolution to advance psychological research and education.

社会心理学网络（SPN）已成为社会科学研究和教学中最国际化和最广泛使用的在线网络之一。然而，它的大多数网络资源都是在智能手机、平板电脑和其他移动的计算机广泛采用之前设计的，而这些计算机现在是访问互联网最常见的设备。为了解决这个问题，拟议的项目将通过重新设计SPN来推进心理学研究和教育，使其页面、交互功能、数据库和合作网站与移动的设备一起工作。除了通过移动的技术推进研究和科学教育外，该项目还将建立在SPN 18年的“放弃心理学”记录的基础上，为社会问题提供信息，并扩大代表性不足的群体的参与。例如，创建便于移动的网页将促进使用SPN指导方案，其中600多名具有博士学位的志愿者向代表性不足的群体的学生提供免费职业援助。它还将增加对SPN伙伴网站的访问，如斯坦福大学监狱实验（PrisonExp.org）、拼图教室（Jigsaw.org）和UnderstandingPrejudice.org，每个网站都侧重于保护人权、防止校园暴力和减少偏见等社会问题。通过采用“移动的优先”的设计方法重构SPN，该项目将确保该网络在各种计算设备上具有互操作性和响应能力，从而使得SPN更容易访问并且更好地装备以在新的移动的技术继续要求社会联网的未来时服务于该领域。这项工作将分阶段完成，首先是招聘一名移动的设计专家，并进行技术审计，以审查SPN的社交媒体使用、搜索引擎优化、网络托管、服务器配置和编程工具选择等要素。在为SocialPsychology. org开发新的移动的设计和编程之前，SPN网站的重新设计和转换将开始于相对较小的网站，如PrisonExp.org和eInterview.org。接下来将重新设计SPN的10，000多个用户配置文件和会员页面的系统，然后转换其他SPN页面和功能。最后，这个项目将使网络能够很好地利用移动的革命的力量来推进心理学研究和教育。